How true is the statement: With more pay comes more stress?

Question

I'd say 85% of the time, this is true. What do you think?

Answer 1

I'd say it's true more than 85% of the time. Consider that more pay means one of three things.

1. While at your current job, you either received a merit raise for working harder or overtime pay for working longer.

2. You have been promoted to a more challenging position in the same company and you feel the need to "prove your worth" so you focus all your time and attention on doing so.

3. You have taken a job at a different company and have to not only learn a new job, but also figure out how to "fit in" to your new environment while learning the names and faces of your new co-workers.

Rarely, if ever, will you receive more pay for keeping the status quo. Ask any psychologist, change of any kind (even good change) is a source of stress. And have you noticed that much of the time, that added stress spills over into our personal lives? We have less quality time with our loved ones which causes stress on the entire family. When we go home after work, we're tired. Our energy is sapped, but we have more to do. We argue with our spouses over petty things for reasons we don't even understand. Anger and resentment develop, then apathy follows. Relationships fail and once again, the result is more stress.

Answer 2

I agree that it's true more often than not if you're talking about job stress, since there is a definite correlation between higher pay and higher levels of responsibility.

Overall stress, though, I'm not so sure that it's true, since not having enough money is a major source of stress for people who don't have much.

Answer 3

Somewhat true. But, I think it is more so, with more pay, more responsiblity you have to the employer. I had a terrible job for 3 years, less pay, much more stress, than the great job that I have now. Making almost two times more money.

Answer 4

No, that is not true with more pay you get to give the stress istead of taking it. **** rolls downhill dear to your subordinates. With more money your life becomes easier trust me I made six figure three years in a row now I am dead broke and filled with stress. Losing my home, my hair, my sanity, take the money you can buy a solution to most of your problems and the rest of the problems you can buy some time to figure it out.

Answer 5

Stress comes when you either have a bad job, are doing too much overtime, or believe you are being pressured. You can change your attitude from being pressured to being challenged, ("and I am capable of this challege") or change jobs. More money does usually mean more responsibility, and how you react to that makes the difference.

Answer 6

I think that with more pay more responsibilties but if you are already doing the job well and you like what you are doing where is your stress...