It's 1400 BCE and I'm a wealthy person in ancient Egypt who can afford a slave, a bodyguard and a servant. How wealthy am I truly?

by ThePoarter

Trying understand how wealthy such a person is and how it effects their lifestyle.

Bentresh

This depends a great deal on the person's gender, background, and position, but you may be interested in my answer to What did being wealthy look like in the bronze age?, which focuses on Middle and New Kingdom Egypt.

The royal household was full of servants of foreign extraction in the New Kingdom, and high-ranking nobles often had foreign servants as well. For example, in a letter to User-setet, the viceroy of Kush, the 18th Dynasty king Amenhotep II mentioned Near Eastern women in User-setet's household.

You have taken up residence [in Nubia], a brave one who plunders in all foreign countries and a chariot-warrior who fought for His Majesty, Amenhotep II, who [takes tribute from?] Naharin and decided the fate of the land of Ḫatti, the lord of a woman from Babylon, a maidservant from Byblos, a young maiden from Alalakh, and an old woman from Arapḫa...