They both had jobs at the Ministry. He had hesitated over accepting his best offer, a high-level position in International Magical Cooperation, but when Hermione took a job in the Department of Mysteries, that seemed to give him the resolution to take it. They had been given advances on their salaries in order to get places to live, since he was an orphan and her family lived in the Muggle world. Hermione did not actually require the money; her family was reasonably well-to-do, but it was very nice to have that independence. She knew that Muggle women would not have the opportunities she had.