Personality Type Corresponds with Income Per Time Magazine

[Esoteric Wench]

Per this article ENTJs make the most money while INFPs make the least. Do you agree?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/06/this-is-how-much-money-youll-make-based-on-your-personality/

 

[Cellmold]

So the ENTJ's are to blame for everything.

Always suspected!

 

[Esoteric Wench]

Yeah. Those ENTJs are wiley. I must admit that the one ENTJ I know is also one of the most successful businessmen I know. And, the INTJs I know (and I know several) are pretty damn successful, too. They also rate pretty high in this article.

 

[chickpea]

It's possible but where are they getting their information from? 60k is pretty high to be the lowest average. Doesn't seem like a good sample.

 

[Coriolis]

It's possible but where are they getting their information from? 60k is pretty high to be the lowest average. Doesn't seem like a good sample.

The narrow data range ($23K) also seems off, and there are issues with the methodology, or at least the analysis, some of which are mentioned in the comments.

Even stranger than that, if you follow the link to http://careerassessmentsite.com/ and scroll down to the bottom of the graphics, you will see that one of the sources listed is Typologycentral.com! So, are they getting their questionable data partly from us??

 

[Seymour]

It's possible but where are they getting their information from? 60k is pretty high to be the lowest average. Doesn't seem like a good sample.

That does seem a a bit high, since $50k was the median US household income in 2011. And for it to be household, one would have to separate out the earning power of each income earner (for multi-income households), which seems a bit difficult. There would also be interactions based on gender income disparity, so that more women being Fs would make the reported income of Fs lower because of gender alone.

On the other hand, I'm definitely over-achieving for an INFP... I need to slack off, apparently.

 

[Sunny Ghost]

It's possible but where are they getting their information from? 60k is pretty high to be the lowest average. Doesn't seem like a good sample.

Those were my thoughts when I first came across it. I'd be content with $60k.

 

[Stanton Moore]

My sister is an ENTJ: not wealthy.
I wonder how much $$ Thom York has made?

 

[SensEye]

I agree, that household business might really foul up the data. A household is quite likely to have 2 income earners of different types. Regardless, the results are not too surprising in the sense that extroverts and judger's rule the roost.

Kind of nice to see MBTI get some play in the mainstream media though.

 

[Stanton Moore]

So do personalities make income, or is it the other way around? Does a circumstance make for personality, or does personality inform the circumstance, as this article implies?

 

[FDG]

entjs love to marry rich ppl

 

[Stanton Moore]

There once was a movie called Trading Places...

 

[Fluffywolf]

Putting it all into context though, an INFP is not as materialistic as an ENTJ and an INFP with a low income is most likely to be happier about their income than an ENTJ with an average income.

 

[Sunny Ghost]

Putting it all into context though, an INFP is not as materialistic as an ENTJ and an INFP with a low income is most likely to be happier about their income than an ENTJ with an average income.

I agree with this statement. And not just the INFP's, but certain personality types seem to care less for material things or large sums of money, and would rather kick back a bit more in life.

 

[lunareclipze]

Figures, ISFP is one of the ones that make the least.
Apparently we are one of the most likely to have a low IQ as well.

My parents are both ISTJs and only make about $20,000 a year each but that's because my Dad was laid off from a job that we was getting 80k/year for. (He was working for a tire factory and he was laid off during the automotive recession)

I kind of figured that J types on average are probably going to make more than P types.

 

[cafe]

Even stranger than that, if you follow the link to http://careerassessmentsite.com/ and scroll down to the bottom of the graphics, you will see that one of the sources listed is Typologycentral.com! So, are they getting their questionable data partly from us??

That's kind of an unsettling thought.

 

[five sounds]

surprised it's so high for ENFPs

 

[HongDou]

surprised it's so high for ENFPs

Good going, team! We didn't come in last!

I'm surprised the ENTPs are actually lower than the ENFPs on this chart. I mean I know this isn't really a totally feasible source of information but I would have thought ENTPs would have been the Ne-doms to come out on top. Then again, I guess since the top 2 are ETJs Te is one's guide to makin' bank.

Also INTPs are supposedly making more than ENTPs? Interesting.

 

[greenfairy]

So the ENTJ's are to blame for everything.

Always suspected!

Down with ENTJ's and their capitalist exploitative ways.

I agree the data and methods are highly suspect. Another thing is that "households" (<--I don't know how this is defined) I'm pretty sure don't make up the majority of the population, or at least are a narrow majority. What about college students, single young adults, single parents (which might be considered a household), etc.? Do you have to own a house to be a household? Was this a survey conducted by land telephone line? That would really skew the results. And there are tons of people who make way less than 60k/yr who aren't represented in this.

 

[greenfairy]

So the ENTJ's are to blame for everything.

Always suspected!

Down with ENTJ's and their capitalist exploitative ways.

I agree the data and methods are highly suspect. Another thing is that "households" I'm pretty sure don't make up the majority of the population, or at least are a narrow majority. What about college students, single young adults, single parents (which might be considered a household), etc.? Do you have to own a house to be a household? Was this a survey conducted by land telephone line? That would really skew the results. And there are tons of people who make way less than 60k/yr who aren't represented in this.