

Jacket's age can be narrowed down further if the description of the Vicious outfit's Rockaway Beach variant is canon as it explains that he was a Roadie in 1983 in exchange for alcohol and drugs, heavily implying Jacket be around, if not exactly drinking age (21) at that time, making him likely tie Jiro for the second oldest member of the Payday gang.Although, this is contrary to the fact that not only are San Francisco, Hawaii, and Miami all not nuclear wastelands, that the Cold War didn't escalate into the Soviet-American War, nor was there any Russo-American Coalition in the Payday universe.

However, in his character description, his age group is marked simply as "unknown". If the former case is canon, his involvement in the 1985 Hawaiian conflict during Hotline Miami 2 implies that Jacket could be anywhere from 46 to 67 years of age by the time PAYDAY 2 took place, dependent upon his age of enlistment.Dennis Wedin of Dennaton Games left the relationship between the two up in the air when asked about it. Because of the large number of unknowns at hand, his relationship to the Hotline Miami Jacket remains uncertain.

While the files state that he might have been the very same person, it is also loosely suggested that the PAYDAY 2 Jacket is a separate individual inspired by the character's MO. With the release of the FBI Files, however, Jacket has been heavily implied to be a canon part of the PAYDAY universe.
