LogFAQs > #895827447

I forget where I read it, but I read that money does equate to happiness up to a certain level. It of course varies by where you are, but I believe for the US it's about $75k (aside from places known to be expensive - NYC, LA, SF, Honolulu, etc., where that's higher). If you make that, you're not that much happier with additional money and I believe it plateaus somewhere.

That's not to say that you can't be happy with earning less money. I don't make $75k, but definitely don't earn minimum wage either (I earn over twice the minimum wage). Yet, I wouldn't call myself happier than my friends that make or make close to minimum wage. In fact, those friends are usually happier than I am. I'm jealous of that, to be perfectly honest, because I am the type of person that has suffered serious depression over money or the type of jobs I'd be able to work. Work and money have controlled me for over a decade now and this board has even told me that I let those things impact my happiness too much.

So what am I trying to say? It depends on the person and how much they value financial security, but for most people, money does buy happiness up to the point where it doesn't.
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