Beauty as good as a university degree

A team at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in northern Germany questioned more than 3,000 people about their career, and compared this with rankings of how attractive they were.

The results suggest that being one point more attractive was worth a three percent wage hike, while being five points more attractive boosted a career by the same amount as having a university degree.

The interviewer also ranked each interviewee’s physical attractiveness from one to 11 – one being the least attractive, 11 being the most attractive.
Professor Christian Pfeifer said the results showed that “just one point above average on the attractiveness scale and the chance of getting employed rises by three percent.”
“Five points more – that is about the difference between an ordinary face and downright beauty – helps in getting a job as much as a university degree,” he said.