[Gustomaximus]

I feel the missing piece is income security.

If your earning $200k and sweating bullets to keep a high pressure job your not going to be as happy as the $120k job for life middle management. Also as the higher your income goes the few jobs at they bracket exist.

Whereas if the $200k job is for a person largely guaranteed a job at that pay somewhere I feel that would provide more opportunity to do things you like and increase happiness.

I've come across of a few of these studies. Has anyone separated out 'income security'?