About seven in ten respondents in a survey said they strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement: “Having more money would solve most of my problems.” Similar proportions of people in each income bracket felt that way, including those with salaries of $200,000 or more.<\/p>\n\n
Exactly how much more money do we think we need to be happy? A survey from the financial-services company Empower put the question to about 2,000 people.<\/p>\n\n
In the survey, most people said it would take a pretty significant pay bump to deliver contentment. The respondents, who had a median salary of $65,000 a year, said a median of $95,000 would make them happy and less stressed. The highest earners, with a median income of $250,000, gave a median response of $350,000.<\/p>\n\n
Even very wealthy people think like this. A 2018 study asked millionaires to rate their happiness on a scale from one to ten and, if they didn’t say ten, predict how much money they would need to move one point higher. Slightly over half of those with a net worth of $10 million or more said their wealth would need to increase by at least 50%.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[410],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[446],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3396,3681,3683,3706,3707,3796,3842,3991,4100,4181,4254,4401,4435,4442,4488,4528,4843,4901,5266,5302],"tax_ctp_topics":[392],"class_list":["post-34937","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-affluence","tax_ctp_tags-consumer-mentality","tax_ctp_tags-contentment","tax_ctp_tags-covenants-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-coveting","tax_ctp_tags-discontent","tax_ctp_tags-economics","tax_ctp_tags-finances","tax_ctp_tags-greed","tax_ctp_tags-human-nature","tax_ctp_tags-insecurity","tax_ctp_tags-love-of-money","tax_ctp_tags-materialism","tax_ctp_tags-meaning-of-life","tax_ctp_tags-money","tax_ctp_tags-need","tax_ctp_tags-riches","tax_ctp_tags-security","tax_ctp_tags-wealth","tax_ctp_tags-worldliness"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"\n