OP-ED: Fire Up the Dating Apps, Men! New Government Report Shows Married Men Earn More Than Anybody

If there was ever a reason for single men to step up to the plate and boldly overcome any cold feet, here’s a great one: cold, hard cash. A new government report shows men who overcome their fear of commitment reap the reward of the highest lifetime earnings, higher than single men (and anyone else, for that matter). Married men earn way more money over their careers than single men, single women, and married women, according to the new report from the St. Louis Federal Reserve. The report found unmarried men and women have very little difference in income, according to their analysis of all people employed in 2016 with at least a high school diploma. Interestingly, the report found that for women, getting married doesn’t do much to improve our wages, which helps reinforce–if we didn’t already know ourselves–that we shouldn’t be the ones waiting by the phone for that man to call us back after the first date. Of course, Guillaume Vandenbroucke, the report’s author put in the necessary caveat that the report doesn’t necessarily prove that being married pumps up a man’s wages–it could mean that men earning higher wages are more likely to marry and lower-income men…
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