Regency Servants' Hierarchy: During the Regency era, anyone with pretensions to gentility hired domestic help. There was no electricity or modern plumbing, so running a middle-class home involved a workload we can barely imagine these days. As for the town houses and country piles of the haut ton,  an army of servants was needed to operate those grand status symbols. Fortunately for the upper classes, servants were a dime a dozen and an early 19th century one-percenter typically earned 250-1000 times more than a footman. The gender gap in wages also provided the wealthy with [...]