Aretha Franklin passed away earlier today at age 76, leaving behind a legacy better defined in words than numbers. On Twitter, her name was the top trending item this afternoon — followed by her “Queen of Soul” moniker — as some of the world’s biggest names waxed poetic on her talent and impact.

“In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade — our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect,” wrote Barack Obama. Added Whoopi Goldberg: “She is now in the pantheon of God’s greats.”

Franklin clocked plenty of meaningful figures, from her 18 Grammy wins to her 73 chart placements on Billboard‘s Hot 100, but the size of her paychecks generally lagged the depth of her cultural footprint. The songstress never appeared on any Forbes ranking of the highest-paid celebrities, and we estimate that her income sat in the low seven figures annually over the last few decades of her life.

That’s certainly an amount of money that many people desperately desire, but it never added up to the sort of wealth accumulated by fellow septuagenarian Barbra Streisand (whose net worth now sits at $400 million) or even relative newcomers like Madonna ($590 million) and Beyoncé ($355 million).