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This Is The Income Needed To Be 'Happy' Around The World
This Is The Income Needed To Be 'Happy' Around The World
In most countries, the average worker still earns less than the income researchers associate with peak reported well-being.
Research on income and well-being has identified a “satiation point,” an income level beyond which additional earnings no longer improve reported happiness. But how close does the average worker come to reaching that threshold?
An analysis from Remitly calculated the price of happiness in economies around the world and compared it with average local wages.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, ranks the 50 countries...
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