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Mar 8, 2016

Do People Look For Earning Potential On Tinder Or Is It All About Looks?

Would you be surprised if the data say looks are the priority?

How else to explain the presence among the most popular job categories for men's and women's searches of professions such as firefighter, physical therapist, interior designer, model, paramedic - and college student?  JL

Bouree Lam reports in The Atlantic:

Tinder users are willing to forgo some earnings for sexiness—and that’s true for both men and women. Many people use Tinder to look for a fling or a hookup (as opposed to a relationship), but it’s still representative of what people look for in mates, considering that Tinder has enabled 10 billion matches and thousands of  engagements.
Three months ago, the dating app Tinder announced that it would add a feature many of their users had been requesting: the option to include job and education information on their profiles. At the time, I wrote that this was perhaps a sign that the dating app was going the way of traditional dating—when it isn’t just a snap judgement based on a photo, people might start matching more often with those of similar education and economic backgrounds (a phenomenon that researchers call “assortative mating”).
Tinder said that adding these two pieces of information would mean its users could make “more informed choices” when deciding whether to swipe right and “like” another user’s profile. Since then, millions of users have added their jobs to their profiles and recently, Tinder released a list of the most right-swiped jobs in the U.S., broken down by gender, between November 2015 and January 2016.

Men
Women
1PilotPhysical Therapist
2Founder/EntrepreneurInterior Designer
3FirefighterFounder/Entrepreneur
4DoctorPR/Communications
5TV/Radio PersonalityTeacher
6TeacherCollege Student
7EngineerSpeech Language Pathologist
8ModelPharmacist
9ParamedicSocial Media Manager
10College StudentModel
11LawyerDental Hygienist
12Personal TrainerNurse
13Financial AdvisorFlight Attendant
14Police OfficerPersonal Trainer
15MilitaryReal Estate Agent


Pilots were the most popular job among people viewing men’s profiles; physical therapists were the most popular among those viewing women’s. But the list gets more interesting when paired with data about the earnings of each of the most popular professions. Matching Bureau of Labor Statistics data with the most right-swiped professions provides a look into whether high-earning professions on Tinder are more popular than low-earning ones, and whether there’s a gender difference in these preferences. In other words: Are men whose jobs suggest they make more money more sought-after? What about women with lucrative-sounding jobs?
Here, arranged from top to bottom, are the most popular professions for male users to have on Tinder, matched with their average annual earnings according to BLS:
Pilot
82430
Entrepreneur
102750
Firefighter
48750
Doctor
194990
TV/Radio Personality
44030
Teacher
49090
Engineer
93630
Model
33530
Paramedic
35110
Lawyer
133470
Personal Trainer
39410
Financial Advisor
108090
Police Officer
59530

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