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I would expect very little correlation with salaries. And about self-reported happiness - I often think that knowing about all biases, memory imperfections and all that stuff, and about how difficult it is to decide correctly, makes me substantially less happy.
prase, is happiness much of a goal for you? If so, have you tried to apply rationality toward it, e.g. by reading the academic research on happiness (Jonathan Haidt's "The Happiness Hypothesis" is a nice summary) and thinking through what might work for you?