One of the biggest issues in the 2016 presidential campaign is inequality—the big and growing gap between the top 1% of Americans and the rest of us. Candidates like Hillary Clinton have seized the issue, even though she and most of her rivals are well-off—if not fabulously wealthy—in their own right.

Today the gap between the haves and the have-nots—in both absolute and relative terms—is at its widest since the 1920s, just before the mother of all crashes that sparked the Great Depression. Top earners (like Clinton) are pulling away, while most Americans are treading water at best. Much of the resulting anger and resentment that the average American has about this is directed at our political system, which is more steeped in cash than ever before.

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But does this mean that the candidates themselves are wealthier than ever before? History suggests that the answer is no: Past presidents and wannabes (like Mitt Romney four years ago) have been far wealthier than the current crop of men and women seeking the Oval Office.

So just how loaded were our prior presidents?

In today’s dollars, adjusted for inflation by 24/7 Wall Street:

• John F. Kennedy, had he lived, would have inherited a fortune from his father estimated at $1 billion. Joseph P. Kennedy, a razor-sharp investor who hauled out of stocks just before the 1929 crash, was one of America’s richest men; JFK’s wife Jacqueline, a habitué of Park Avenue and the Hamptons, was an oil heiress.

• George Washington was worth some $525 million. The father of our country owned big chunks of prime farmland in Virginia (and some 300 slaves to work it); wife Martha inherited a boatload from her father.

• Thomas Jefferson’s net worth is measured at about $212 million; like his fellow Virginian Washington, he owned thousands of acres of land and slaves (and fathered children with one, but that’s another story).

Several other presidents would be worth $100 million+ today: Theodore Roosevelt ($125M), Andrew Jackson ($119M) and James Madison ($101M). Then there were deep-pocketed candidates who never made it to the White House, but could console themselves with piles and piles of Benjamins, like Nelson Rockefeller, who inherited a chunk of his father’s $340 billion (not a typo) empire.

Thus set against the backdrop of these far wealthier men, today’s candidates—rich as we think they are—are minnows. Even so—and unlike tens of millions of Americans, who have next to nothing saved and are one paycheck away from disaster—most of the men and women seeking the presidency today are, not surprisingly, in good shape, some lavishly so.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton, certain to be her party’s nominee, gets all the attention. Don’t let her much publicized “Scooby van” trip to Iowa, which included a stop at Chipotle, fool you. This self-professed “champion of the middle class”—is worth $15.3 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And of course, her husband—raking it in since leaving office in 2001—is worth far more. Hillary Clinton—who once claimed her family was “dead broke” after their presidency, is about as economically removed from the little guy as you can get.

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But not as far removed as the wealthiest Republican candidate, Carly Fiorina. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO is worth some $80 million, making her 2016’s wealthiest candidate by far. Fiorina, whose tenure at HP was known, among other things, for the layoffs of some 30,000 workers, says she knows how to create jobs and grow the economy. A big chunk of her wealth, by the way, was the $21 million in severance given to her by HP’s board of directors when she herself was canned in 2005—certainly more than the tens of thousands who lost their livelihoods on her watch got.

After these two poverty-stricken women, there’s actually a pretty sharp drop off in wealth among declared candidates. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is worth just over $3 million, while Rand Paul, the eye doctor turned Kentucky Senator has some $1.3 million.

But not every declared candidate is a millionaire. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has an estimated net worth of $443,000, while Bernie Sanders, the self-described socialist Senator from Vermont, has just $330,507. It seems socialism doesn’t pay too much.

There’s no question that other likely candidates—notably Republicans Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee (the former governors of Florida and Arkansas, respectively)—are loaded too, but since neither has officially declared his candidacy, they haven’t been required to disclose their latest financial records.

I do have one bit of advice of these candidates—a little self-deprecation about your wealth won’t hurt, and may even puncture public resentment. At the 1958 Gridiron Dinner (an annual gathering of Washington’s elite), John F. Kennedy, gearing up for his successful 1960 run, read a “telegram” from his father: “Dear Jack,” it said. “Don’t buy a single vote moire than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”