According to the text, Candy has three hundred dollars saved up, and he has fifty dollars coming to him at the end of the month. Candy reveals to George that the boss gave him two hundred and fifty dollars when he lost his hand on the farm in an accident. Here is the quote:
“S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hunderd an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?”
The significance of this amount of money is that Candy wants to be a part of the plan to buy and live off the land. He says that he would give them the money to purchase the land. He will also work as best as he could, and when he dies, he will leave the land to them.
After thinking, George agrees. This makes George and Lennie's dream almost with reach. As George says, "they can swing it."
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