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By Daniel Butcher<\/a><\/p>\n

There is no meaningful correlation between levels of alcohol consumption and compensation among early-career professionals working in roles focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). But heavy drinking is associated with higher pay for non-STEM professionals who are recent college graduates.<\/p>\n

Academy of Management Scholar Peter Bamberger<\/a> of Tel Aviv University said that he and colleagues have researched levels of alcohol consumption and compensation of STEM professionals versus those working in non-STEM fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were looking at the link between consumption patterns and income growth in the initial years of employment after graduating from college, and surprisingly, what we found is a positive relationship between drinking and income growth in non-STEM roles,\u201d Bamberger said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe findings are actually capturing the dynamic that, if you\u2019re not in a STEM job and you want to move up in the organization, you need to engage in these social practices that often revolve around alcohol, and the more you do that, the higher your growth in income is going to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That finding is\u2014at least in part\u2014tied to the prevalence of non-STEM professionals working in sales, marketing, distribution, customer-service, and business-development roles who routinely partake in adult beverages while meeting with clients and prospects.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of non-STEM people are engaging in marketing and sales and support in building and maintaining relationships with customers,\u201d Bamberger said. \u201cIn STEM roles, they\u2019re working in a lab or in front of a computer terminal coding, so there\u2019s less of a role for alcohol as a basis for increasing your salary\u2014drinking is not going to do a hell of a lot for your career if your role isn\u2019t client-facing, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cBut early-career non-STEM salespeople who drink on the job with clients may be more likely to get promoted and rewarded financially,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was the logic behind the research, and that\u2019s what we actually found.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s an obvious caveat. Bamberger noted that recent research shows that daily alcohol intake\u2014even in moderate amounts\u2014increases drinkers\u2019 risk of health issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been a couple of studies that have come out recently that that directly contradict the line that\u2019s been pushed a lot by a lot of the alcoholic-beverages companies, which is that having some wine with your meal every day is going to prolong your life\u2014it\u2019s healthy,\u201d Bamberger said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re best off not drinking any alcohol whatsoever, not so much because of its implications on mental health, but rather largely because of its implications with respect to alcohol as a carcinogen, specifically as a leading cause of esophageal cancer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany younger employees nowadays recognize the risks in drinking; a lot of young people are actually picking up on those problematic implications of drinking alcohol even at the lowest levels and understanding that health risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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