Wanna make more money? Get taller!!!
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:21 am
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives than their shorter co-workers, with each inch adding about $789 a year in pay, according to a study released on Thursday.
"Height matters for career success," said Timothy Judge, a University of Florida management professor whose research will appear in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
"These findings are troubling in that, with a few exceptions such as professional basketball, no one could argue that height is an essential ability required for job performance nor a bona fide occupational qualification."
Judge and Daniel Cable, a business professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, analyzed results of four large-scale studies in the United States and Britain that followed thousands of participants from childhood to adulthood, examining details of their work and personal lives.
"If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it, we're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage that a tall person enjoys," Judge said.
The relationship between height and earnings was particularly strong in sales and management but was also present in less social occupations such as engineering, accounting and computer programming, the study found.
Height's commanding influence may be a remnant of our evolutionary origins, from a time when humans lived among animals and size was an index of power and strength used when making "fight or flight" decisions, he said.
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Oh boy! I may be in financial trouble.
"Height matters for career success," said Timothy Judge, a University of Florida management professor whose research will appear in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
"These findings are troubling in that, with a few exceptions such as professional basketball, no one could argue that height is an essential ability required for job performance nor a bona fide occupational qualification."
Judge and Daniel Cable, a business professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, analyzed results of four large-scale studies in the United States and Britain that followed thousands of participants from childhood to adulthood, examining details of their work and personal lives.
"If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it, we're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage that a tall person enjoys," Judge said.
The relationship between height and earnings was particularly strong in sales and management but was also present in less social occupations such as engineering, accounting and computer programming, the study found.
Height's commanding influence may be a remnant of our evolutionary origins, from a time when humans lived among animals and size was an index of power and strength used when making "fight or flight" decisions, he said.
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Oh boy! I may be in financial trouble.