Turns Out $500k Gold Digger Too Cheap
By BankersBall on Dec 16, 2007 in Girlfriend!, Lifestyle
$500k is a little on the low side when it comes to chasing money.
Sure, that $500k gold digger got slammed for her request, but turns out according to this WSJ article, those marrying for money are typically after at least three times that.
For those of the gold digger persuasion, about $1.5MM is enough to make an “average-looking person” suddenly all that more appealing. The results were based on a survey of more than a thousand $30,000 to $60,000 earners conducted by Prince & Associates.
So what do these gold diggers look like? Women were more likely — 2/3rds answered that they were “very” or “extremely” willing to marry for money, versus 50% of the men. 74% of women in their thirties would marry for money — the most likely group. Despite that, women in their thirties only needed $1.1MM to seal the deal, versus twentysomething gold diggers ($2.5MM) and 40s gold diggers ($2.2MM).
Oddly, no one in the survey quoted a figure higher than $3MM.
On Dec 17, 2007, B2B said:
“Women were more likely — 2/3rds answered that they were “very” or “extremely” willing to marry for money, versus 50% of the women.”
Does this even make any sense?
On Dec 17, 2007, Ex-Working Girl said:
I hope they mean per year and not net worth.
On Dec 17, 2007, BankersBall said:
It makes sense if you’re drunk. Corrected to read “men.”