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.
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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