| Wealth | Net Worth Weekly Expenses |
Tech Level | Standard of Living | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient | Blacksmith | Clockwork | Engine | Nuclear | Fusion | Hyperspace | |||
| 100 1 |
Destitute | - | - | - | - | - | - | Food: vegetables or a cereal. Little or no meat. Drink is buttermilk or water. Housing: perhaps none; maybe a tiny room or hut for a family; no furniture. Clothing: sackcloth, homespun, rude leathers, nudity. | |
| 1 | 200 2 |
Thrall | Destitute | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2 | 400 4 |
Laborer | Thrall | Vagabond | - | - | - | - | |
| 3 | 750 7.5 |
Tradesman | Laborer | Destitute | Destitute | Homeless | - | - | Food: Vegetables, cereals, cheese, and eggs. Occasionally meat or fish. Beer. Housing: One good room shared by a family. A chest or two, bench and tables, lamps. Clothing: shoes, 1 new suit of clothes a year; winter clothes will be warm and protective. |
| 4 | 1,500 15 |
Craftsman | Tradesman | Laborer | Day Labor | Social Case | Destitute | - | |
| 5 | 3,000 30 |
Foreman | Journeyman | Tradesman | Employed Labor | Social Case | Social Case | Desitute | |
| 6 | 6,250 63 |
Manager | Guildsman | Craftsman | Small Trader | Employed | Unemployed | Slave | Food: Meat or fish with most meals. Beer and table wines. Housing: small house or appartment. Good bed, fine furniture, decorations or display items. Clothing: high-quality linens and cottons, occasional luxury such as fur trim or jewellery. |
| 7 | 12,500 125 |
Business owner | Manager | Foreman | Skilled Labor | Trader | Trader | Vagabond | |
| 8 | 25,000 250 |
Functionary | Guild Master | Manager | Foreman | Skilled Labor | Employed | Trader | |
| 9 | 50,000 500 |
Guild Master | Functionary | Business owner | Manager | Foreman | Skilled Labor | Employed | Food: Plentiful meat, fowl, shellfish, etc. Pastries and breads. Good wines. Housing: multi-roomed villa or grand appartment. Artworks and fine rugs. Clothing: silks and satins, decorative trims including gold and silver threads. Gold jewellery with gemstones. |
| 10 | 100,000 1,000 |
Landlord | Executive | Functionary | Business owner | Manager | Foreman | Craftsman | |
| 11 | 200,000 2,000 |
Baron | Landed Knight | Executive | Functionary | Business owner | Business owner | Foreman | |
| 12 | 400,000 4,000 |
Earl | Baron | Landed Gentry | Executive | Functionary | Manager | Business owner | Food: luxury items such as birdnest soup, candied fruits, and rare beasts. The finest wines. Large banquets and parties. Housing: several large dwellings including a country mansion and a townhouse or small palace. Clothing: trend-setting, exquisite garments of the rarest materials, fine jewellery and accoutrements. |
| 13 | 750,000 7,500 |
Count | Earl | Baron | Gentry | Executive | Functionary | Manager | |
| 14 | 1,500,000 15,000 |
Marquis | Count | Earl | Millionaire | Millionaire | Millionaire | Millionaire | |
| 15 | 3,000,000 30,000 |
Duke | Marquis | Count | Old Money | Gentry | Executive | Functionary | Food: rare or outré luxury items such as hummingbird tongues, enormous and complex meat pastries, elaborately prepared platters, strange fruits, and rare beasts. Housing: palaces. Clothing: beyond style, one-of-a-kind items, accenting large and beautiful precious gems. |
| 16 | 6,250,000 63,000 |
Prince | Duke | Marquis | Industrialist | Old Money | Old Money | Executive | |
| 17 | 12,500,000 125,000 |
Petty King | Prince | Duke | Industrialist | Investor | Gentry | Gentry | |
| 18 | 25,000,000 250,000 |
King | Petty King | Prince | Industrialist | Investor | Investor | Dilletante | Food: elaborate presentations. Enormous parties. Housing: large palaces. Clothing: designs which accent the wearer's ritual or political functions. Several exquisite crowns, sceptres, keys, etc. |
| 19 | 50,000,000 500,000 |
Major King | King | Archduke | Industrialist | Industrialist | Investor | Old Money | |
| 20 | 100,000,000 1,000,000 |
Emperor | High King | Minor King | Industrialist | Industrialist | Industrialist | Industrialist | |
| 21 | 200,000,000 | God-King | Emperor | King | King | Industrialist | Industrialist | Investor | Food: State dinners are events talked about for months and years. Housing: palace complexes the size of medium cities. Clothing: wearable works of art, so marvellous that even the sophisticated are astonished. |
| 22 | 400,000,000 4,000,000 |
- | - | Emperor | Emperor | King | Industrialist | Noble | |
| 23 | 750,000,000 7,500,000 |
- | - | - | - | Emperor | King | King |
The examples in the first tech collumn are for a primitive level of production. In more advanced societies, material wealth is more pronounced, so the table shifts down one line for each level of technology. A culture with common and sophisticated magic should shift down one additional line.