Notoriety Shady Contracts: Schedule, Start Times & Next Countdown

Shady Contracts is the recurring job drop in Notoriety: A PAYDAY® Experience, Moonstone Games’ co-op heist shooter, and it has become one of the fixtures regulars build their week around. Each cycle brings a fresh batch of anonymous, limited-time contracts for crews to clear before the window closes—and it now runs twice a week rather than on a single day, so more players can reach it. The game itself is no small corner of Roblox: it has drawn over half a billion visits across its lifetime—about 560,000,000 and counting—sits on more than about 2,900,000 favorites, and usually keeps a few thousand players in active rounds, about about 1,500 at the moment.

This runs on a steady rhythm rather than as a one-off: new contracts open on the same days each week, stay live for a short stretch, then clear until the next cycle. The next run and the usual start times are on the card below, so you can plan a session around it.

Next occurrence

Notoriety: A PAYDAY® Experience

Shady Contracts

Nov 4, 8:00 PM ET

Next in 23h 48m

Projected from its usual rhythm — we confirm the exact time once the developer posts it.

Usual times

• Wednesdays, 9:00 PM ET
• Fridays, 12:00 PM ET

Runs weekly.

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How often Shady Contracts runs

Shady Contracts runs on a weekly rhythm, and it has come around 5 times so far. It now opens in two slots each week—Wednesdays at 9:00 PM ET and Fridays at 12:00 PM ET—and the next one opens Wednesday, November 4 at 8 PM ET. There are two windows for a practical reason: a single start time is convenient for one half of the world and the middle of the night for the other, so splitting the week lets players in every region catch at least one run at a sensible hour. Here is how both slots land across the major time zones:

What happens in Shady Contracts

The premise leans into mystery. Every so often the crew receives a run of anomalous jobs with no named client and no explanation of who is behind them—only the promise that the payouts are worth the trouble. The hook is the clock: these contracts stay open for a short duration and then vanish, with no guarantee of when a similar batch will show up again. In practice that means:

• A fresh set of time-limited heist contracts to clear as a crew.
• Rewards tied to finishing jobs inside the open window.
• A short run time, so it pays to jump in rather than put it off.

As the in-game briefing frames it, “time is of the essence”—the event rewards crews who show up ready to go rather than those who wait.

Tips for catching Shady Contracts

• Pick whichever of the two slots falls in your afternoon or evening from the table above, then set a reminder—the Wednesday run suits Asia-Pacific daytime, while the Friday run lands in European and Indian evenings.
• Line up a crew in advance. The jobs are built for co-op and the short runtime rewards a group that is ready at the start.
• If you miss one, don’t sweat it—another slot comes around the same week, and the pattern repeats next cycle.

How Shady Contracts fits Notoriety’s schedule

Shady Contracts sits alongside the game’s larger, occasional drops. Right now the seasonal Spooky event is live, and earlier beats like the July Update, the Valentine’s Update, Ash’s Pack Update, and a Skills, Balance & Weapons pass have each come and gone. Where those are one-time content updates, Shady Contracts is the dependable weekly beat between them—a reason to log in midweek and again on Fridays even when no big patch is on the horizon.

Shady Contracts FAQ

What time is the Notoriety Shady Contracts event in my timezone?

It runs two slots a week. The Wednesday run starts at 9:00 PM ET—6:00 PM US Pacific, and (on Thursday) 1:00 AM in the UK, 2:00 AM in central Europe, 6:30 AM in India, 10:00 AM in Japan and 12:00 PM in eastern Australia. The Friday run starts at 12:00 PM ET—9:00 AM US Pacific, 4:00 PM UK, 5:00 PM central Europe, 9:30 PM India, and the early hours of Saturday in Japan (1:00 AM) and eastern Australia (3:00 AM).

How often is the Notoriety Shady Contracts event?

It follows a weekly rhythm, now with two slots a week—every Wednesday at 9:00 PM ET and every Friday at 12:00 PM ET—each staying live for a short window before clearing until the next cycle.

When is the next Notoriety Shady Contracts event?

The next run opens Wednesday, November 4 at 8 PM ET; the exact countdown is on the card above.

What do you do in Notoriety Shady Contracts?

You and your crew clear a batch of anonymous, time-limited heist contracts for their payouts before the window closes—the jobs have no named client and a short runtime, so the draw is high-value rewards for finishing quickly.

Last updated November 3. We update this page as the schedule changes.