Finally, retroactive justification for all those boring meetings.
It seems all that debate-clubbing, band-playing, yearbook-editing and after school do-gooding literally paid off.
GOOD uncovered a study that said a student who participates in extracurricular activities in high school will earn 11.8% more in later life. The report, published by Vasilios D. Kosteas, an economics professor at Cleveland State University, concluded the 11.8% salary bump is equivalent to more than two and a half years additional of schooling.
And that’s not the only way clubs payoff. Kosteas also discovered that a person who participated in extracurricular activities was more likely to end up in a supervisory role in their job due to the management skills they absorbed while participating clubs. For each club the student participates in they have an additional 2.3 percentage point increase in the probability of becoming a supervisor.
Now if only we could find a reason why we wore such bad clothes back then.