Who says I don’t pay enough attention to men in this blog? Today, I’m offering a hot career tip just for the guys. And it’s really simple: If you want to beat the competition and make lots of moolah—start producing babies. Right now.

That’s because working fathers (why does that sound funny but not “working mothers”?) get a Daddy Bonus. According to a new study by Justine Calcagno of City University of New York, men with children outearned men and women without kids, as well as working moms, across race and ethnicity lines in New York City. (The study looked at data collected from the U.S. Census Bureau between 1990 and 2010.)