Fitness & Weight Loss

Why it pays to look good at work

Mar 28 10:09am

It pays to look good at work, particularly if you're a woman.

Attractive women may earn a "beauty bonus" of five per cent on top of their normal wage, and while men at work aren't penalised for being obese, it seems women are.

Fattest professions in Australia (% overweight or obese)
1. Ministers of religion (80%)
2. Construction managers (76%)
3. Electrical engineers (73%)
4. Commissioned officers (72%)
5. Auditors (72%)

Thinnest professions in Australia (% overweight or obese)
1. Specialist doctors (25%)
2. Advanced legal clerks (29%)
3. Architects (30%)
4. Psychologists/counsellors (31%)
5. Designers (32%)

* Information from a recent survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on behalf of the Australian Financial Review, published 15 March 2008.

9 Comments Report Abuse

1. esservices@y7mail.com - Apr 02 04:28pm

People refer to fatty food these days due to the price compared to healthy and the lack of time to prepare healthy meals!

2. rachel_uk_2003 - Apr 14 02:35pm

3. eddie01@y7mail.com - Sep 02 02:03pm

This is a load of usless crap

4. eddie01@y7mail.com - Sep 02 02:04pm

Its actually cheaper to eat healthier / and will save on the medical bills what you are older. Get up a little earlier and prepare for your day/

5. laurel_spencer1 - Sep 02 03:21pm

What's so hard about buying a bunch of carrots and celery? Drizzle some balsamic dressing over them - quick snack and you'll feel a lot better :)

6. business4dummies - Sep 03 01:34am

You are what you eat, don't forget that old adage. Stick to what has always been the healthy foods. Plenty of Fruit and Veggetables. Protein, Fish, chicken, beef. Don't forget to make sure you buy Raw milk not the processed stuff. Check this out. Mercola.com (just saved your life) ur welcome!

7. drjazz@y7mail.com - Sep 14 05:37pm

more like if you get paid more, you eat better and don't get as fat

8. malanotliza - Sep 19 04:37pm

whatever!as long as i eat then everything is ok!

9. shaved_tiger - Mar 09 09:24pm

Where on earth is this so called "beauty bonus" information coming from? I would really like to read more about it than on e sentence followed by some irrelevant statistics...
Get your act together, WH, this is extremely poor journalism.