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If you want to excel in your career, it might be time for some self-loving, if the results of a new survey are anything to go by.

The survey by Univia has revealed that people who regularly masturbate are more likely to be managers at work.

In the survey, 1,012 people were asked about their masturbation habits, as well as their job.

The results revealed that people who masturbate at least once a week are more likely to excel in almost every way in the workplace.

Univia explained: “They were more likely to be employed, more likely to hold management positions, and more likely to earn higher salaries.”

Delving deeper into the results, the researchers found that infrequent masturbators earned an average salary of $44,006 (£35,876), while those who masturbated once a week earned $47,076 (£38,381) on average.

Meanwhile, regular masturbators were 8% more likely to ask for a raise.

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While the reason for this link remains unclear, the researchers suggest that masturbating could help to improve your self-confidence.

They explained: “The boost in self-confidence that masturbation was previously shown to cause may be one major contributor to higher paychecks, for it can take a certain amount of confidence and bravery to ask your boss for a raise.

“In other words, masturbation may be correlating with the self-confidence boost needed to ask your supervisor to pay for what you deserve.”