Everyone has heard of an “attractiveness bonus”. But researchers are now talking about an “ugliness bonus” that can lead to higher salaries.
It is not looks that lead to higher salaries, but rather intelligence, health and personality , as researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, have found.
People who are extroverted, conscientious and emotionally stable also win.
Long-term thinking
“Companies that pay employees higher salaries simply because of their appearance run the risk of unsustainable success. If social and emotional intelligence and health play a subordinate role, the entire corporate climate will suffer in the medium term and ultimately affect results,”
says trainer and speaker Christian Oberleiter from the Institute for Applied Creativity to press text.
Due to the ever-increasing shortage of skilled workers, companies are striving to retain employees in the long term.
“Overpaying visually attractive team members would therefore be counterproductive,”
sums up Oberleiter.
The research results also agree with this and clearly refute a so-called “attractiveness bonus”.
“Ugliness Bonus”
According to the researchers, their study has implications for discrimination in the workplace.
Many people still believe that unattractive people get less money. However, this prejudice is unfounded.
What is also astonishing is that, according to the study, very unattractive people always earn more than their unattractive and often even more than their average and attractive colleagues.
Scientists refer to this as an “ugliness bonus”.
Despite this result, the researchers warn against categorizations.
“Discrimination – whether involuntary or intentional – based on superficial criteria that are not related to the employee’s productivity, reduces the efficiency of companies in the long term,”
says the “Journal of Business and Psychology”.
Source: press release
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