15 Dec
How Your Weight May Affect Your Paycheck
That’s Fit reported this week that overweight men and thin women have the biggest paychecks, according to a study of 20,000 German and US salaries.
Here are the highlights of the research:
- Women who weigh 25 pounds more than the group norm make $14,000 less than their average-size colleagues.
- Women who weigh 25 pounds less than the group norm make $16,000 more than their average-sized colleagues.
- Men who are considered thin make $9,000 less than their colleagues of average weight.
- For men, their paychecks increase with their weight — all the way to obesity. The peak weight for high paychecks is 207 pounds.
Has anyone experienced weight-based paycheck discrimination?
