How do i pay off a large bounty in skyrim

Use the console command player.additem f 1000. This will add 1,000 gold coins to your inventory. You’ll need this because the next command will need to extract the gold from your inventory to clear your bounty.

The amount varies by level. It’s 22 at max level. The same person also said it degrades at a higher rate when logged off. At 22 it took approximately 8 hours to drop from 3.2k to 450g.

You can try console commands to ‘force’ paying your bounty. Make a save game first, and then in the game, open up the console by pressing ~ , then click on one of the arresting/assaulting guard(s). The guard’s RefID (a bunch of numbers) should show up in the screen. After that, type in paycrimegold in the console.

Wait out a few days and see if the situation hasn’t died down by then. The guards will still want you to make reparations, though. An anonymous user mentions that you can try sneaking up to a guard from behind and trigger the dialogue screen to pay off your bounty.

Bribe guard Thieves Guild members have the option to bribe the guard. The amount of gold required to bribe a guard is usually much larger than the bounty for small crimes, but less than one for murder and doing so will raise the Speech skill, immediately clear your bounty and avoid having items confiscated.

Declare Thaneship If you are the Thane of a hold, you can declare this to the guard. This will immediately clear your bounty, but can only be done once per hold.