Beauty's only skin deep, but that may be enough in the workplace. "Ugly people earn less than average-looking people, and average-looking people earn less than the beautiful," reports University of Texas economist Daniel Hamermesh in his new book, Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. Studies indicate that a good-looking man or woman can expect to earn an average of $230,000 more in a lifetime than a person who is plain or homely. Hamermesh doesn't analyze what makes people attractive, but studies show that people generally come to the same judgment on a 1-to-5 scale about who's pretty or handsome....
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