<title>Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year</title>
<link>https://kylrth.com/paper/experienced-well-being/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:34:53 -0400</pubDate>
<guid>https://kylrth.com/paper/experienced-well-being/</guid>
<description>Turns out that money does buy happiness. You may have heard that people’s average happiness stops improving once you make more than $75,000/year? Researchers did a better survey with more data and found that that was not the case.
The researchers cited 5 methodological improvements over the old research that suggested that it didn’t matter after $75,000:
They measured people’s happiness in real time, instead of having people try to remember past happiness levels.</description>