“According to the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator, which tests behavioral binaries, there are a total of 16 distinctive personality types. The Career Assessment Site created an infographic that, among other things, shows the average household income for each one.” …
Looks like Extraverts have the edge.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/personality-types-most-least-amount-140826566.html
ENTJs-- cha-ching!
Bummer! (INTJ here)
Ironically given the chart, my BFF is an INFP who is brilliant and makes a lot of money - almost in spite of himself - he’s not driven by the money at all, but he’s just so darn smart people seek him out.
Heh…ENTJ here.
Not part of the 1%, but can’t complain. However, there’s more to an individual than one’s earning power or wealth. Especially considering the latter could have been inherited.
And if the heirs…including the blithering idiots among them have a reasonably competent fund manager managing that inheritance and it’s large enough, they could be earning tons just from the dividends, taking profits from capital gains, and compounding interest.
While that’s great, this form of high earnings isn’t indicative of one’s personality or one’s intellectual/academic/financial bonafides. 
ENTJ is the highest, while ENTP is the second-lowest. So the J versus P with the rest of ENT seems to make a huge difference, if those stats are to be believed.
M-B is essentially a parlor game. Our personalities change with circumstance, context, age, and are dependent on culture, setting, etc. There’s nothing immutable about any of those characteristics.
I have tested INTJ consistently and strongly for 25 years. I think it is an accurate description of me, and find the construct useful with clients, coworkers, etc. - even my family.
Some people don’t change with age and settings. Some people do.
If I remember correctly, the general view of psychologists is that most people do. That’s true with me, where in some contexts, I’m introverted and don’t want anything to do with the people involved (and I have to force myself to talk to them), and in some contexts, I’m extroverted and let it all out. Also why I get annoyed by the M-B questions, because for 90% of them, I can see myself answering either way (in different contexts). Some times I like phone calls, and other times I don’t. Sometimes I feel that being adaptable is best and sometimes I feel that being organized is best, etc.
Tied in to this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
I don’t think the bias is against introverts so much as against people who are shy (not necessarily the same thing). Some introverts have great social skills and some extroverts love being around people but still struggle in social situations.
FWIW I tested ESTJ some years ago. I think that’s generally true for me, but have become more introverted as I have grown older.
DH is VERY social, though I wouldn’t say he is an extrovert. He has a really strong work ethic and is a very persuasive type, which is good, considering he is in a job which requires excellent sales AND negotiating skills. He isn’t Donald Trump, but he has done very very well. It’s pretty much due to his personality, imo, though of course he is subject to the vagaries of the market.
ETA: After looking at the M-B, I guess according to that, DH is definitely an extrovert.
This is a reason why most people seem to fall closer to the middle regarding each of the factors like intro/extroversion.
While I still test as extroverted, I’m much more closer to the middle as an undergrad/working professional than I probably was as a young child when I enjoyed chatting others’ heads off on a wide variety of topics…including some many adults felt were beyond young children like presidential elections and current events.
When the kids were young, we got the book “Nurture by Nature” whereby we calculated the Meyers Briggs for each of us and tried to parent accordingly. For example, DS is a F in a family of Ts so we try to adjust how we interact with him accordingly since we make decisions by quite a different approach. DD is a J in a family of Ps, so we will try to structure around her so that she feels less anxious.
Years ago I was involved in a school district committee of parents of gifted kids. There were some annual seminar days. Learned that 75% of the population is extroverted while 75% of the highly gifted are introverted. The teacher from elsewhere giving the talk was atypical for her profession- she needed her down time between classes instead of talking with her peers. Fascinating to learn how the opposite personalities operate and have different needs. Imagine typical teachers faced with gifted introverts when they are used to their own style and that of most kids.
I wonder- all those straight out of college tech jobs that likely have many introverts and make the most money. How do they fit in this article’s scheme? Perhaps the company CEO’s and others who need to schmooze make the most bucks.
Wish the books had been there decades before they were (likewise books on the gifted). So much made sense- and I would have been able to handle son’s personality relative to mine so much better. I also found a disconnect with many college students with whom doing things was fine but they weren’t into the same intellectual wants whereas my gifted friends were much more fun to discuss with but they didn’t want to socialize like I, the extrovert, did. Learning thought processing differences and the need for downtime to reenergize explain so many mother-son conflicts. Also explains what other adults noticed about son.
It does look like J tends to do better than P in the first linked page for most combinations of E/I, N/S, T/F.
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/judging-or-perceiving.htm says the following:
The differences regarding deadlines (planning work to avoid cramming versus cramming for the deadline) may be a significant factor how people are viewed in the workplace.
I thought no one took M-B seriously. I also think of it like a parlor game. My dd’s class did it Sr year and it was useful as a starting point for introspection and conversation. Just like I saw how Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs was so true, when I read it in my youth, I find the MB similar, but I never had the test, I wonder if I would find it more or less accurate than being a Libra… And for anyone upset by these earnings figures, my dd is an ENTP and is at the top of salary scale for her job at early career and it is off these charts completely.