1. Attractive men earn 9 percent more money than unattractive men; attractive women earn 4 percent more money than unattractive women.
2. Individuals with above-average IQs are only 1.2 times as likely as individuals with below-average IQs to have a high net worth.
3. People who were popular in high school earn 10 percent more than people who weren't.
4. Graduates of Princeton University and Dartmouth College earn salaries 162 percent higher, on average, than graduates of East Texas Baptist University.
5. For every three inches taller than average they are, women earn 5 to 8 percent more money than women of average height; men earn 4 to 10 percent more for every extra three inches in height.
6. Being married and staying married increases your net worth by 77 percent.
7. Drinkers earn 10 to 14 percent more money than abstainers.
8. Those who earned undergraduate degrees in petroleum engineering earn salaries over four times as high as those who earned undergraduate degrees in child and family studies.
9. Each one-unit increase in a typical young person's body mass index is associated with an 8 percent reduction in wealth.
10. 22 percent of American households headed by persons of Russian ancestry have a net worth of $1 million or more.
11. 21 percent of white Americans and only 2 percent of African Americans and 8 percent of Hispanics buy real estate or make other investments at young ages, which economists consider a key predictor of future wealth.
12. Blond women earn 7 percent more money than non-blonds.
13. Nonsmokers' net worth is about 50 percent higher than that of light smokers, and more than twice as much as that of heavy smokers.
14. 36 percent of American children born to parents in the uppermost economic bracket remain there as adults.
15. 54 percent of American children who are born to parents in the uppermost economic bracket and who then earn college degrees remain at the top.
Source (thedailybeast.com)
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