13
Mar
2026

What annual salary do you actually need to be happy?

cause and effect

Metro

The experts agreed that money makes less of a difference to a person’s happiness as they become richer, revealing that an annual salary of £120,000 is the magic number when it comes to feeling happy and content.

However, during the episode, Professor De Neve stated that £120,000 is the ceiling, as we ‘no longer detect a statistically significant relationship between further money and life satisfaction.’