Wealthiest person in the room?

[NorCal]

As another Silly Valley resident, I've thought about it compared to my neighbors.  I live next to:

1. A high school principal
2. A biotech hedge fund guy
3. An electrician

My best guess is that the highest net worth goes to the electrician.  He lives in a house that's been in his family since at least the 1970's.  Second highest net worth would go to the high school teacher, since they bought their house in the middle of the housing crunch.  Lowest net worth would be the hedge fund guy.   He probably makes $500K/year, but he rents, and has some very spendy habits and some very spendy family members.  It's surprisingly easy to blow that amount of money around here.

[Jakejake]

Not sure if I'm the wealthiest. But when I got hired in, there was no 403b plan. We got one only because I went to the board meetings and raised a stink about it. So nobody in the building was investing in a retirement plan through work at that point.

Then I found out we could have a 457 plan, tried to pursue that, hit a few dead ends - finally figured out a loophole way around it after a legislative change (the new healthcare option for Michigan teachers turns out to be a 457 and we can contribute above the automatic deductions for it - but nobody tells us that!). I spoke about it at some staff meetings and emailed about it, but from what I've gleaned, nobody is taking advantage of it besides me.