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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Single man here making 280k at age 32. I’m 5’5 though :/

Honestly I would rather be a 6’2 guy making 60k.

Height requirements seem like a harder limitation than salary requirements. I can’t even date women who are 3 inches shorter than me because short women all want super tall guys to compensate for their own shortness.[/quote]

See Table 5.5 on page 48 of this famous economic study of on-line dating. The authors estimate statistically that a 5'5" man needs to earn about an additional $200K a year to be as attractive as a 6 foot man making $60K, so would need to earn $260K. To be as attractive as a 6'2 man earning $60K, he would need to earn $290K.

https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf

So your estimate is just about dead on accurate, congrats.

This does control for other things ("all else equal"), like facial attractiveness, etc. [/quote]

And these are the same women who would crow, "Misogyny!" if a man expressed a preference for thin women.  Bullshit.[/quote]

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