25% of workers just showing up for check

Percentage of women who feel that signing a prenuptial

agreement shows a lack of trust, according to a survey by www.date.com: 11

Percentage of men who feel that signing a pre-nuptial agreement shows a lack of trust: 12

Percentage of women who said they would give up their career for someone they loved: 71

Percentage of men who said they would give up their career for someone they loved: 71

Web surfing

Percentage of office workers who say they spend some time accessing the Internet while at work for personal reasons, according to a survey for Websense: 50

Percentage who spend equal time on work-related and nonwork-related Web surfing: 10

Showing up

Percentage of U.S. workers who feel disconnected from their employers, according to a survey conducted by TNS: 40

Percentage who do not identify with or feel motivated to drive their employer’s business goals and objectives: 67

Percentage who are just “showing up to collect a paycheck”: 25

Disaster

Number of weather disasters in the United States since 1980 in which damages or costs were more than a billion dollars, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: 62

Number of those that were tropical storms or hurricanes: 20

Number that were nontropical floods: 12

Number that were heat waves or droughts: 10

Education pays

Estimated lifetime earnings of someone with less than grade nine education, taking experience into consideration, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: $976,350

Estimated lifetime earnings of a high school dropout: $1,150,698

Estimated lifetime earnings of a high school graduate: $1,455,253

Estimated lifetime earnings of a person with a bachelor’s degree: $2,567,174

Estimated lifetime earnings of a person with a master’s degree: $2,963,076

Estimated lifetime earnings of a person with a doctorate: $3,982,577

Estimated lifetime earnings of a person with a professional degree: $5,254,193

Job security

Percentage of Americans who say there is no chance they could lose their jobs in the coming year, according to a

survey of full-time workers by Right Management Consultants: 52

Percentage who said that if they did lose their job it would be hard to find a comparably paying job: 80

Spam-a-rama

Percentage of corporate e-mail traffic that is expected to be spam in 2005, according to a report by the Radicati Group: 53

Percentage of consumer e-mail traffic that is expected to be spam: 74

Dropping the ball

Rank of “forgetting to inform direct reports and/or co-workers that you’ve volunteered their assistance” and “failing to inform fellow employees about new co-workers until after they’ve started on the job” as the top two transgressions that can sink a management career, according to a report by the outplacement and career coaching firm ClearRock: 1 and 2, respectively.

Millions

Percentage of SBJ readers who have household net worth of $1 million or more, according to SBJ’s 2003 Readership Survey: 26

Percentage of SBJ readers who have investment portfolios of more than $1 million: 12

John MacIntyre is an author and former city magazine editor. His Figuratively Speaking column, launched in 1989, is published in more than 40 newspapers and magazines.