How does your personality type affect your income? (2024)

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Does personality affect income? ›

Abstract. This meta-analysis examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and earnings. The results reveal that openness to experience, conscientiousness, and extraversion exhibit positive correlations with earnings, whereas agreeableness and neuroticism are inversely correlated with earnings.

For example, your personality — or, at least, your own assessment of your personality — could impact your annual salary. Those who self-identified as conscientious were the most likely to make at least $75,000 per year, while “highly neurotic people” were most likely to earn $34,999 or less annually.

Traits With the Highest Earning Potential

Based on the above four dimensions, extroverts, sensors, thinkers, and judgers tend to be the most financially successful.

Commanders (ENTJ)

They make money the foundation of many life decisions, including educational and career choices. They are the personality type most likely to equate money with influence. They reach beyond needs and extend their interest in money to attaining their wants and desires.

The Wealth Elite

My study also found that the rich are less agreeable and less neurotic, but more conscientious, more open to experience, and more extraverted. Beyond that, however, other key findings emerged in the interviews: The super-rich are overwhelmingly nonconformists who love to swim against the tide.

Unfortunately, the traits of agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism were associated with lower lifetime wealth accumulation. Highly agreeable people may devote more of their money to helping others and might also be more vulnerable to financial scams, whereas extroverts could be more impulsive spenders.

INTJs, often considered as the most successful personality type, go by the names Mastermind or Architect; fitting descriptions for this personality type. They're analytical, observant and open-minded. INTJs balance carefully between the big picture and the little details needed to achieve global goals.

Extroverts are going to do best when they are in energetic, open settings. They like working in teams, they like dialogue and interaction. Introverts are the opposite. They are not going to like open offices, and they prefer to work alone.

More agreeable — nicer and friendlier — men earned much less than their peers. This isn't typically true for young workers. The effect is only visible once men turn 30, and it's strongest between ages 40 and 60, according to a Harvard study.

What is the rarest personality type? ›

Perhaps that's because INFJ is the rarest MBTI personality type, making up only 1% to 3% of the U.S. population.1 Or maybe it's because they're walking, talking contradictions. INFJs are easy-going perfectionists.

Introverts with intuition, which possess the highest mean intelligence scores, also have the highest grades: INFJ and INTJ have the highest grades for all 16 types and INTP and INFP's have the highest grade point average for all P types (Myers, 1985).

All intuition dominants (INTJ, INFJ, ENTP and ENFP) score very high on IQ scales. Rationals are likely to be more intelligent than guardians. Likewise, thinking dominants (INTP and, ENTJ) also score higher than average. The more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to be introverted.

Defenders (ISFJ) (69%) were the most likely personality type to identify as frugal, followed closely by their Thinking-type counterparts, the Logisticians (ISTJ) (67%).

INFJ, also known as the advocate, counselor, or idealist, is the rarest type of personality in the general population.

Some of the factors that determine an individual's income level include education level, economic trends, and skills. The level of education has a significant impact on your future income and can expand your access to prospects within a chosen sector based on your educational level.

Increasing household incomes reduce differences across adolescents with different levels of initial emotional-behavioral symptoms and personality traits.

How Your Personality Impacts Your Career. Your personality colors your outlook and point of view. You see things based on your past thoughts and experiences, and it impacts what you believe will happen in the future. That outlook translates into your workplace and career decisions.

ISFPs (people with a preference for Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving) were the most likely of all 16 personality types to report being unemployed. And INFPs, INTPs, ENTPs, and ESFPs were all more likely than average to report that they were out of a job, according to the report.