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Not happy with your salary? Your smartness could be the reason behind less pay, says a study

A research, published in the European Sociological Review in January, found that higher general intelligence can only increase your salary up to a threshold of about $57,300 a year. Beyond this, the study found that ability plateaus as wages continue to rise. And earners in the top 1% score slightly worse than those in the income tier directly below them

Source | economictimes.indiatimes.com | ET Online

Do you sometimes feel unhappy with your salary? Your smartness could be the reason behind this. As per a recent Swedish study, the biggest earners may not be the workers who are the brainiest.

A research, published in the European Sociological Review in January, found that higher general intelligence can only increase your salary up to a threshold of about $57,300 a year. Beyond this, the study found that ability plateaus as wages continue to rise. And earners in the top 1% score slightly worse than those in the income tier directly below them.

“We find no evidence that those with top jobs that pay extraordinary wages are more deserving than those who earn only half those wages,” wrote the authors of the study, which was led by Marc Keuschnigg, a senior associate professor for analytical sociology at Linköping University in Sweden.

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