{"id":32786,"date":"2014-07-23T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/?p=32786"},"modified":"2014-07-23T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:53:54","slug":"map-happiness-income-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/map-happiness-income-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"This Map Shows When Money Stops Buying You Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the saying, \u201cMoney doesn\u2019t buy happiness.\u201d  While there&#8217;s a well-intentioned moral lesson to be learned from that saying, a new study sheds some light on that very subject.<br \/>\nIt reveals that money can bring happiness but there\u2019s a threshold where money can only buy happiness up to a point. In addition, that threshold varies from state to state according to cost of living.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s pretty incredible to see Hawaii, where a household needs $122,175 a year before making more money won\u2019t make them any happier, in contrast to Mississippi, where a household only needs $65,850 a year before making more money won\u2019t make them any happier.<br \/>\nCapeesh?<br \/>\nCheck out these fascinating infographics to see how much money you need to make before it doesn\u2019t make you any happier.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 600px\" alt=\"State Income Happiness\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/07\/state-income+happiness\/map.png\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 600px\" alt=\"State Income Happiness\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/07\/state-income+happiness\/state+chart.png\" \/><br \/>\nSo if you make $72,075 in South Carolina, I would tell you to relax, but according to this map you&#8217;re probably already relaxed.<br \/>\nLearn more about the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advisorperspectives.com\/dshort\/commentaries\/Happiness-Benchmark.php#ixzz37eM5xPxF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nH\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/07\/17\/map-happiness-benchmark_n_5592194.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the saying, \u201cMoney doesn\u2019t buy happiness.\u201d While there&#8217;s a well-intentioned moral lesson to be learned from that saying, a new study sheds some light on that very subject. It reveals that money can bring happiness but there\u2019s a threshold where money can only buy happiness up to a point. In addition, that threshold varies from state to state according to cost of living. It\u2019s pretty incredible to see Hawaii, where a household needs $122,175 a year before making more money won\u2019t make them any happier, in contrast to Mississippi, where a household only needs $65,850 a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","post--single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Map Shows When Money Stops Buying You Happiness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I guess money DOES buy happiness.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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