Banks, Jewelry Stores, Museums, etc.

Banks, Jewelry Stores, Museums, Art Galleries, and other business that deal with high value goods and/or large quantities of cash are of course very common targets for super-powered villians. However, they are flat-out not permitted to hire supers to defend themselves. So what's a very vulnerable business owner to do?

The answer that most have come up with is "encourage good Samaritans" - and for a business, that means, "pay them when they do good things."

This has been going in for quite some time, and the tradition (going back at least as far as bankers in the fourth century AD) is "ten percent of prevented damages." For bankers, that's ten percent of whatever is in the cash drawers... unless the super powered bad guy seemed prepared to crack the vault, in which case its ten percent of whatever is in that. For jewelry stores, that's ten percent of the value if the easily-grabbed inventory (often handed over directly in inventory, as they seldom carry that much cash). For museums and art galleries, that's ten percent of the appraised value of the most expensive single item in the place (as a raider is usually only after a single item... and museums and art galleries don't make much). And so on. Larger organizations adopt it as official policy, smaller ones do it in an ad-hock manner, but basically every business is on board with it... although sometimes grudgingly.