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Doing a simple linear regression, it looks like every additional letter added to your name [after three letters] 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.More quotes »
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Senior Accountant
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Landing Your Next Big Gig: Q&A With TheLadders’ Amanda Augustine
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Shorter names earn bigger salaries, says career website
A new analysis by career website TheLadders suggests that a person's given name, and even nickname, can hinder their salary expectations at work. The New York-based online job search service arrived at the conclusion after gathering data on salary levels from CBC News Read more »
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Edge on the Clock - Want to Make More Money?
According to jobs website TheLadders.com, people with short names make more money than those with long names. In fact, each extra letter could cost you $3600 a year. So... we guess Arnold Schwartzenegger is just an exception? Many pages in this WCCB-TV, from Fox Charlotte Read more »
