What Future Job Earning Prospects Are In A Name?

[looksgoodinred]

Maybe none. But according to this study, there's a correlation to your name and how much you're likely to earn.

Five-letter names earning the most.

 

 

One point we noticed was that shorter names seemed to be higher ranked across all categories and metrics, so we investigated further. It turns out we were right, and there is a correlation between the number of letters in your name and the average salary:

Doing a simple linear regression, it looks like every additional letter added to your name accounts for a $3,600 drop in annual salary. One exception is names with seven letters, like Stephen, but closer inspection showed that seven-letter names lend themselves to males over females, so it’s higher paid males over-indexing and inflating the seven-letter bucket.

Top five C-level (CEO) names, by gender, in ratio to their overall frequency:

Top five highest-paid names:

http://blog.theladders.com/research-2/3556/

[BrianFaePerth]

As someone wi a 5 letter name, eh can say thon is a pile of shite

[looksgoodinred]

As someone wi a 5 letter name, eh can say thon is a pile of shite

 

maybe that's lack of skill and not your name then?

you might be earning even less if you had a longer name!

[BrianFaePerth]

maybe that's lack of skill and not your name then?

you might be earning even less if you had a longer name!

 

Skill shouldn't come in to it, eh have a 5 letter name and demand my money dammit

 

Seems burds called Christine are both successful and rich. WTF? Do they shorten their name to Chris and payroll gives them a man's wage by mistake?

[daytripping]

My boss and the boss above him, and the boss above us all, have 5 letter names, there may be some truth in this thing!

 

I'm 6 letters and poor which provides further evidence,

 

My daughter has a 5 letter name so fingers crossed she can look after me in my latter years.

[looksgoodinred]

Skill shouldn't come in to it, eh have a 5 letter name and demand my money dammit

 

Seems burds called Christine are both successful and rich. WTF? Do they shorten their name to Chris and payroll gives them a man's wage by mistake?

 

woot!

[BrianFaePerth]

I'm 6 letters and poor which provides further evidence,

 

 

Prick is only 5 letters

[daytripping]

Prick is only 5 letters

 

Steady on!