I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to earn more money. This want/need tends to be the case for those of us living in a capitalist society, or maybe that’s just what I like to blame my own financial desires on. Many of us would like to think more money means more happiness, and while it’s hard to determine if that’s necessarily the case, in Britain, there seems to be a certain level of income where the happiest people reside.
According to Reuters (per Yahoo), a survey by lovemoney.com determined that those workers who make £50,000 (nearly $76,000 USD) a year are the happiest among those in the £10,000-£70,000 range. Not only that, but 20 percent of those earning £50,000 said they “couldn’t be any more content with their life,” and 10 percent claimed to be “truly happy all the time.”
Why is this particular group of people so chipper? According to Ed Bowsher, head of consumer finance at the lovemoney.com site, “… you’ve got the combination of perhaps a personality where you’re more easily content with your lot but also at a salary which is very much above the national average.”
This, of course, begs the question of why those at the top of the earning range aren’t happier. As Bowsher notes, “The kind of people who have the ambition to get a job that is earning 70,000 or more may be the kind (of) people who are never going to be satisfied.”
Food for thought, isn’t it?
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