jfllcellular
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Master's Degree
Direct cost: $62,820 Indirect cost (including lost wages): $133,200Total cost: $196,000 Annual earnings increase: $13,600
Height Surgery (6cm)
Direct cost: $50,000 Indirect cost (including lost wages): $20,000Total cost: $70,000 Annual earnings increase: $6,000
Comparison
Height surgery costs 64% less ($70k vs $196k) and takes a fraction of the time to recover from, but yields less than half the annual earnings increase ($6k vs $13.6k).However the break-even on a master's degree is ~14 years, while height surgery breaks even in ~12 years — making height surgery the slightly better pure financial investment, before accounting for the non-monetary social, dating, and confidence benefits of height.