Ugly people: You're no more discriminated against than anyone else - Research

Being a hottie doesn’t mean a bigger paycheck after all.

A recent study released by the Journal of Business and Psychology found that exceptionally beautiful people really don't have a leg up in the salary department because of their looks.

For years it had been believed that better looking people were paid more, a phenomenon researchers called “the beauty premium.”

But the new study found that although very attractive people made more money than their less attractive peers, those considered to be supremely unattractive were high earners, too. Researchers said the least attractive people sometimes made even more money than those lucky beauts.

The study measured the relationship between the earnings and general attractiveness of 20,745 people, for 13 years, beginning at age 16.

The Journal's findings are so remarkably different from those of past studies, that its authors started referring to the upward "ugly" trend as a potential "ugliness premium."

This new look into the relationship between salary and conventional beauty standards is the first of its kind to take a deeper look into why it is that outliers on the beauty scale — extremely good looking and seriously unattractive — seem to enjoy larger bank accounts.

Researchers found that pretty people were usually healthier, smarter and had more agreeable personalities (a.k.a., that extroverted, popular, breezy coworker we all envy).

But the same could be said for those with less than desirable looks.

It turns out they make more money than their average-faced coworkers and they're healthier, more intelligent and have better personalities, too.

So it seems logical that if you aren't raking in the kind of salary you think you deserve, it might be time to step away from the mirror. Instead, maybe pick up a book, watch the news and brush up on your people and social skills.

You can take that all the way to the bank.