This chapter addresses metic labor. Despite the restrictions on metic women in relationships with citizens and their legal vulnerabilities, many metic women still needed to venture out among the citizen population to earn a living. At issue, however, have been the prejudices that they labored under (and continue to labor under) because of this need. The fi rst was a general prejudice in our sources against working for pay. On the one hand, many women-citizen, metic, and slave-needed to work outside of the home or for pay. We fi nd, however, that this labor is often deemed unfi t for citizens, making labor a sign of servile or foreign status in the city. The other prejudice, the one that still stalks metic women in the scholarship, is that the varieties and reality of their labor are often ignored under the assumption that the majority of metic women of whom we have knowledge worked as prostitutes. I begin with on overview of Athenian attitudes towards work for pay and then explore the various types of labor metic women performed moving from the agora, to the homes of citizens, to temples, and, fi nally, the school room.