Do PR pros earn enough to make them happy?
An economist and Nobel Prize-winning psychologist discovered the amount of money you need to earn to be happy. We compare that figure to data about PR salaries.
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At least if you earn the median salary for those degrees and believe what economist Angus Deaton and Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman have to say.
Crunching data from Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, the pair found that people reported a growing sense of happiness as their salaries got fatter—until they reached $75,000. At that amount, happiness plateaus.
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