Crime pays more with higher education.

Fortune reports.

Even For Mobsters Getting A College Degree Pays Off

Education is good for your paycheck—even if you’re a mobster.

That’s the finding of research by a British university, which focused on the education levels of members of the Italian-American mafia between the 1930s and 1960s. It established that for each additional year of education, gangsters saw a rise in income of as much as 8.5%.