4,000 current and former SpaceX employees are already mapping out plans to spend their anticipated wealth from the company's expected initial public offering, with luxury real estate, high-end watches, and private jet travel topping their wish lists. Even the company's cafeteria workers are expected to cash in on the rocket-based gravy train.

The upcoming SpaceX IPO stands to make Elon Musk a very rich man. But it could also make SpaceX employees, even the company’s cafeteria workers, rake in big moolah and become millionaires.