A new study has gained a lot of attention that shows after a worker earns $75,000 the measurable effect on happiness of pay increases stops, but that figure may vary widely from city to city.Woo Houston! Find out your city's happiness level in the WSJ. (Thanks, Joyce!)
As our colleague Robert Frank notes on the Wealth Report, $75,000 in New York doesn’t buy as much as the same amount in, say, South Dakota. That got us thinking, if $75,000 is the national average salary level for happiness, what is the variation from city to city?
Monday, March 7, 2011
What Salary Buys Happiness in Your City?
From the WSJ:
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