Researchers estimate that each additional centimeter of height is associated with a 1.30% increase in annual income.

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rich people eat better during development
we gotta nail some titanium spikes into spines to get richer people

It can be influenced both by the fact that tall people tend to be promoted more and by the fact that kids of richer people eat better and grow taller as a result and that they partially inherit their parents' socioeconomic status.

Damn, no wonder I'm so short. I'm poor as fuck. Going to need to get some cash so I can reach stuff on the top shelf.
- the capitalists don't want you to know this, but using a ladder is more stable than standing on a pile of money (!!)
  
  Don't listen to this, it's just communist propaganda!
  Get some poors to tape the money together and attach them to the bottom of your boots. True capitalists wear money stilts and they are taller than commie ladders!

Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.

Eating better food, breathing less pollutants, and experiencing less stress make you taller
- From what I understand a lot of it is actually epigenetics and has to do with your parents or grandparents experiencing food scarcity in their lives, which may also explain the wealth disparity stat considering generational wealth being passed on and whatnot
  
  yeah, epigenetics too. Basically the stuff I said but for your parents/grandparents as well

It does explain why countries experiencing more malnutrition tend to be poorer and shorter. Guatemalans are a good example of this. Our height demographics are skewed by the rural poor who are famously around 5 feet at the maximum height. People in the cities tend to be closer to five foot nine.

Is professional sports prominent enough to be a major contributor to the difference? The NBA is an obvious one, but the NFL average height is around 6'2" I think
- No, the number of professional athletes (paid above this amount) is tiny compared to the population

So you show your inches at the first interview or is it more of an annual review type of situation?

Correlation != causation
- Being richer means eating better, which means growing taller. Maybe it isn't height that gets you income, but the opposite.
  
  That’s certainly one strong explanation (makes sense to me), but we can’t conclusively say if one causes the other. All we know is that there’s a correlation between height and income. All other conclusions made require additional assumptions.