Where you live can have a huge impact on how happy you are with your career. The above graphic shows where you’re most likely to find exceptionally happy workers, and where people are the least happy.


This chart was created by career discovery platform Sokanu which offers a career test here. Surprisingly, states with a lot of high-profile industry career hubs like New York and California rank somewhere in the middle on the happiness scale. The top state is Hawaii (which is not as surprising), followed by West Virginia and Maine. The bottom five states include New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Washington, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The chart also gives a glimpse into jobs that offer the most and least satisfied career paths. Though, these are pretty intuitive. Film directors, choreographers, and video game designers have high satisfaction rates, while debt collectors, lab technicians, and telemarketers aren’t as happy.


States With the Happiest and Unhappiest Workers (Infographic) | Entrepreneur