I wonder how much of that is internal vs external. For example, if taller people have higher self confidence / belief that they should earn more they might be more likely to ask for a raise, move to a higher paying job, or start their own company. The external side could be something like, taller people are more intimidating or likeable and thus have easier time getting what they asked for.

> Fingers crossed for remote work bringing some sort of equalizer effect here.

I work at a fully-remote company, and my org had a meetup soon after I first started working here. I was surprised to see how many of the people I work with seemed to be below average height. I've never really done anything to verify it, but I have a hunch based on that anecdata that the median height at my fully-remote company might be lower than the median height of the US population and/or lower than the median height at similarly-sized enterprises that have in-person hiring and work.

Relatedly, less attractive people earn significantly less

Pay equity is and should be about helping unlucky people be more lucky. One cannot choose to not be a class that receives lower compensation inherently.

Looking forward the the HR role specializing in telling you that you are ugly but because of it you get a 5% pay bump.

Or the after interview meeting where your potential coworkers try and decide if they don't want you due to a skill issue or just because you are ugly.

Or ignore the physical human attributes and pay based on metrics and performance? I’m aware, unlikely to ever occur.

Sure I am all for that, that's the way it should be of course.

In aome industries blind interviewing is the norm, and it solves those issues quite well.

Anecdotally, I interviewed and hired an entire team during the pandemic and most applicants chose to go camera off. It’s turned out great.

I then further wonder how much of that difference relates to early childhood nutrition (which would presumably directly affect both height and perhaps directly affects and indirectly correlates with other non-height attributes).

I'm curious how these studies consider factors like race and ethnic background. In the US for example, Latinos earn less than whites for a lot of reasons. Latino men are also shorter overall than white men. But we can think of a lot of relevant reasons Latino men might earn less than white men in the US before we'd start thinking about specific physical characteristics.

They probably just wing it, come up with an assumption and never revisit it.

You’re assuming that all of this is caused by employers having a bias against shorter people. What if shorter people are simply less healthy on average, say, because of the countless genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, that result in a shorter stature AND other developmental problems?

Shorter men need to be richer or funnier I guess if they want a taller wife.