Unless I'm missing something; Leadership caps at 25 until you can take Epic.
Now that i think about it, you are right. Power of Faerun blatantly ignores this rule, with all the npc's in the book. You do have a point though.
While I see the simplicity of having the followers aid the check, by the business rules wouldn't you have to make them partners to allow their aid to the profit check? Splitting the profit 3201 ways drastically cuts down on the profitability to the owner.
May i ask what the source of that one is? My common sense says (so does RL) that people who contribute more to a company or lead the other earn more. I am paying them although i probaly need to increase their wages. I can do 38gp/month (which is a fortune for a lvl 1), and still have a 200k profit per month.
I did start thinking about the alternative way to do this with a minimum amount of leadership. I'l post that soon.
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Page 185, the section on Business Partners, is what makes me think this may be the case. I don't disagree with your layout any, I was just pointing out that might have been what they were aiming for with the income check.