Tall People Earn More

Posted by michael on Friday October 17, 2003 @06:15AM from the wait-till-we-can-gengineer-tallness dept.

ayahner writes "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 new study. If this is true, I should make a killing! At 6'7" I tower over other developers. It's mostly a distraction, as I can see over even the highest cubes and if I stand just in the right spot, I can receive satellite transmissions. Saves on the cell phone bill. I'm going to go ask for a raise right now, if I can figure out how to work the printer..."

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Proof by cybermace5 · 2003-10-17 07:09 · Score: 0, Troll

Though it doesn't seem to be working for me, at 6'3"....

The engineering school I went to shares a town with a medium-sized state college. An interesting statistic is that except for one year, our starting salary has always been far above theirs.

That one year was 1979, when Larry Bird (6'9") from ISU signed a $3,250,000 contract with the Celtics.

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