Did you ever wonder if your paycheck or your job stability depended on how attractive you were? Well published research suggests that in addition to our highly qualified skills and college degrees, looks are a highly compensated feature desired by employers across the land.
As a CFO or the owner of a successful business, does that also in turn mean that by hiring attractive, pretty people your business will be more successful than those competitors who hire their staff based on brains alone? You might wonder, but the research does not point out a profit equals prettiness factor.
Unattractive people earn less than average-looking people, who in turn make less than the good-looking, according to a study by economists Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle. The “plainness penalty” is about 9%, while the “beauty premium” is 5%, according to the report, which was published in the Journal of Labor Economics. So what exactly does this mean? Translation: An attractive worker makes 5% more per hour than an average-looking person, who in turn earns 9% more than their unattractive counterparts. In real dollars, this means that if an average-looking person makes $30,000; their beautiful colleagues would make $31,500, while the homeliest workers earn just $27,523. And interestingly, the impact was similar for both men and women.
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(http://www.theimproper.com/Template_Article.aspx?IssueId=3&ArticleId=1207)
Luckily, beauty is in the eye of the employer. What one recruiter considers plain, another HR executive finds beautiful. Will Corporate America be better off if they see that talent is a beautiful thing?
Good luck, stay legal, and look for the beauty within!
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1 comment:
If looks are that important,in that case brilliants have to suffer.
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