Higher Earners Are Happier, But Not At Work

Abstract People with larger incomes tend to be happier, but when in daily life does that extra happiness actually appear? Based on over 1.8 million real-time observations from 29,138 employed adults from the U.S., this report presents, to my knowledge, the first analysis of how personal income (not household income) is related to happiness measured with experience sampling. The results reveal a…