Shaving & grooming fetches you 5% more salary in job interviews

 

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OCTOBER 27, 2011 Are You Unattractive? Then Shave Carefully Good grooming generates a wage premium of 4% to 5% for young men and can partially offset the earnings disadvantage of not being physically attractive, say Philip K. Robins, Jenny F. Homer, and Michael T. French of the University of Miami. Good grooming affects women's wages too, but less so. Previous research has found a "plainness penalty" of 5% to 10% of wages for both men and women. Source: Beauty and the Labor Market: Accounting for the Additional Effects of Personality and Grooming