Specialists are alternative work assignments for 
Citizens, in which they do not work in the open field (meaning the terrain tiles surrounding their city), but in their city's buildings. In Civilization VI, all buildings with Specialist slots are concentrated in 
Districts. After you construct a district in a city, you will start populating it with the relevant buildings, which in turn will open up Specialist slots where you can assign Specialists. Another difference with the previous game is that Specialists now provide yields only and not 
Great Person Points, which makes them somewhat less important.
As a general rule, specialists are a good way to get yields otherwise hard to find on normal tiles, but the city needs a solid support base of 
Food to support them in the long term. Specialists are also particularly useful when a city grows large later in the game, and has more Population than there are normal tiles to work.
There are different types of specialists, each providing different benefits. Note, however, that there is an upper limit of 3 on any Specialist type, since every city can have only a single district of each type, and each district may house up to three buildings.
- Scientists work in the Campus and provide +2
Science (+3 Science instead with a Research Lab in Gathering Storm). - Priests work in the Holy Site and provide +2 Faith (+3 Faith instead with a Tier 3 Worship building in Gathering Storm).
- Commanders work in the Encampment and provide +1 Production and +2 Gold (+2 Production and +2 Gold instead with a Military Academy in Gathering Storm).
- Captains work in the Harbor and provide +1 Food and +2 Gold (+2 Food and +2 Gold instead with a Seaport in Gathering Storm).
- Merchants work in the Commercial Hub and provide +4 Gold (+6 Gold instead with a Stock Exchange in Gathering Storm).
- Engineers work in the Industrial Zone and provide +2 Production (+3 Production instead with a Coal Power Plant, Oil Power Plant, or Nuclear Power Plant in Gathering Storm).
- Artists work in the Theater Square and provide +2 Culture (+3 Culture instead with a Broadcast Center or Film Studio in Gathering Storm).
Note that Pillaging district buildings will also destroy their Specialist slots; it won't, however, kill the Citizens working there.
See also[]
- Specialists in other games