darklabrynth:

buffyconfessions:

What still baffles me to this day is the fact that
Buffy never got paid. Her being a slayer and also having to manage school and a
social life was always such an issue, and even later on it was heavy expected
for her to focus solely on slaying and in season 6 having a job ON TOP of
everything else hindered that, if though she needed a job to survive. Giles was
paid by the watchers council why wasn’t Buffy?

Because the Watcher’s Council thought they owned her. And you don’t pay something you own. As far as they were concerned, they created her, and she belonged to them. She was no more than property.