Smokers earn 20 per cent less than non-smokers, new research has revealed.
However, people who used to smoke but who gave up more than a year ago earn an average of seven per cent more than those who never smoked.
Economists Julie Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, also discovered that the wages of social smokers and people who smoke a pack a day are equally badly affected by their habit.
Therefore, NBC News reports that it is the fact that a person smokes, rather than how much they smoke, that is important.
The economists also found that levels of productivity are not the cause of the pay gap – their research showed that people who smoke heavily are no less productive than people who do not smoke at all.
They suggest that the main reason for the pay gap is that non-smokers tend to be more highly educated than smokers. Cigarette News Online.
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researchers believe that other influential factors could include an employer’s tolerance for smoking in the office, and the differing personality traits of smokers and non-smokers.
However, Kim Ruyle, president of Inventive Talent Consulting, told NBC News that smoking may not be all bad for your career.
He said: ‘There’s a social aspect to leadership that’s important, and there’s a social aspect to smoking as well.’
He added that people who smoke demonstrate a risk-taking nature and that ‘many effective leaders are highly curious, they experiment, they’re willing to take more risks than some people will’.
He believes that the reason that smokers who have given up earn the most is that this suggests that they are very self-disciplined.
George Boué, an expert with the Society for Human Resource Management, told NBC News: ‘That discipline is useful in the workplace as far as focus on projects and tasks, expectations of similar discipline from subordinates, or simply the discipline for good attendance.’
However, people who used to smoke but who gave up more than a year ago earn an average of seven per cent more than those who never smoked.
Economists Julie Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, also discovered that the wages of social smokers and people who smoke a pack a day are equally badly affected by their habit.
Therefore, NBC News reports that it is the fact that a person smokes, rather than how much they smoke, that is important.
The economists also found that levels of productivity are not the cause of the pay gap – their research showed that people who smoke heavily are no less productive than people who do not smoke at all.
They suggest that the main reason for the pay gap is that non-smokers tend to be more highly educated than smokers. Cigarette News Online.
The
researchers believe that other influential factors could include an employer’s tolerance for smoking in the office, and the differing personality traits of smokers and non-smokers.
However, Kim Ruyle, president of Inventive Talent Consulting, told NBC News that smoking may not be all bad for your career.
He said: ‘There’s a social aspect to leadership that’s important, and there’s a social aspect to smoking as well.’
He added that people who smoke demonstrate a risk-taking nature and that ‘many effective leaders are highly curious, they experiment, they’re willing to take more risks than some people will’.
He believes that the reason that smokers who have given up earn the most is that this suggests that they are very self-disciplined.
George Boué, an expert with the Society for Human Resource Management, told NBC News: ‘That discipline is useful in the workplace as far as focus on projects and tasks, expectations of similar discipline from subordinates, or simply the discipline for good attendance.’
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