Last time, the boss of Armed Nation sneaked some personal goods in with a batch of common armaments, but he definitely made far more than $20,000 from it.
Anyway, they don't spend much money on hiring security personnel, signing contracts with PMC companies at around $85 per hour. Hiring scattered teams costs $60 per hour, compensate a few thousand dollars in case of accidents, and if there's no accident, it's all profit.
Mercenaries and security staff are literally trading their lives for money. Even the people from Black Water Company, the outstanding mercenaries can only make tens of thousands of dollars a month.
