Nice Guys and Women Earn the Least Amount of Money

[Xithras]

"Nice guys finish last" the old adage goes, and a new study suggests there just might be some truth to this dictum — at least when it comes to workplace earnings.

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Behavior, found that men who described themselves as nice -- agreeable, cooperative and kind -- earned 18 percent less than men who characterized themselves as disagreeable and aggressive. Women earned the least amount of money, but women who called themselves disagreeable made about 5 percent more than their more friendly female counterparts.

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Those who described themselves as disagreeable may pursue their own career interests and, in turn, salary negotiations, more aggressively, experts said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/nice-guys-earn-money-workplace/story?id=14316399

This may also explain why so many assholes end up in management positions.

[JaneQPublic]

1. Damn, then I must be a frickin' saint! (nt)

[Divine Discontent]

7. +1

[virgogal]

2. .

[socialshockwave]

3. I'd rather be a nice guy and earn less money then be someone i'm

not, which is a shithead.

[Javaman]

4. I'd rather be a poor nice guy than a rich asshole anyday.

I know I will live longer and have less health problems overall.

[Divine Discontent]

8. right on! I used to work in collections & they said I wasn't hard enough on people & didn't scare

them enough. I said I'm not scaring a woman who just lost her 70 year old husband and is losing her home, just so she'll make a bigger payment on her mortgage. I made the required collections being nice, but by no means was the top earner, that was for the evil folks, and I mean that. I've heard people be so horrible to people (saying things like low-life, loser, etc) that I've told them they were jerks when they got off the phone, and if I got those customers after them a week or two later, I would be told how nice I was, and sometimes even get a payment from them when the others hadn't. I will never give in to "money", and I support your statement, Javaman, I'd rather be a nice guy and feel better!



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[trackfan]

9. Someone once told me I looked good for my age.

I said it was because I hadn't "been beaten down by success".

[kestrel91316]

5. Sort of explains my situation. Oh, I know full well how to go about making

a ton of money in my work, it's just that I couldn't sleep at night if I misled people in the way it requires.

[Rex]

6. Yeah I gave up that nice guy stuff and now am an asshole at work

so I can make more money.

[phantom power]

10. Having done it both ways, over 20 years, it's true: you get what you negotiate, not what you deserve

And the earlier you start negotiating, the better. It's kind of like investing, that way. I learned to negotiate late, and I bet it's cost me at least a few hundred thousand dollars over 20 years.

[scheming daemons]

11. nice guys also earn the least amount of women