If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Although money and mental muscles may seem a natural match, brains, alas, may be more hindrance than help when it comes to getting rich, concludes a new study in the journal Intelligence.

Being more intelligent does not confer any advantage along two of the three key dimensions of financial success (income, net worth and financial distress). Income does weakly correspond to intelligence test scores, the study finds, where a one point increase in IQ test scores is related to an income increase of $346 per year.

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