Beauty Pays, a book by Daniel Hamermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas, Austin, uncovers statistics about the importance of looks in the workplace:
- Obese women earn about $14,000 less per year than their average-weight sisters, or about 12% if you are Caucasian and 7% if you are African-American. On the other hand, remarkably thin women earn $2,000 more each year than the average woman on the job.
- Thin men’s salary averages $9,000 less per year than their average or big-boned brothers.
- A six-foot tall man earns more than $5K more annually than a man who is five foot five. Taller women earn 5-8% more than average women.
- Blonde women earn $870 more on average than brunettes and redheads. Sixty-three percent of bald men report earning less than guys with a full head of hair.
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