Types / Five pillars / Money and work
One part of life
Money and work
A reasonable standard of living, and work that satisfies you—paid or unpaid
What Money and work covers
Money and work covers the material conditions of daily life and the experience of spending time in work, whether that work is paid or unpaid. Money can affect a person’s room to make choices, while work can affect time, purpose, stress, and satisfaction. It belongs in this check-in because these concerns were among the five areas in Carl Jung’s view of a happy life, shared in a 1960 newspaper interview. That’s one person’s view, not a proven recipe.
The questions ask how someone’s money situation feels, whether their standard of living is what they want, and how satisfied they are with their work. One additional question asks about job satisfaction. The money questions come from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the job satisfaction question comes from NIOSH. The satisfaction and importance questions were written for this site and haven’t been validated.
What it leaves out
This doesn’t look at income, savings, or debt. It’s how your money situation feels to you—whether it gives you room to act or keeps demanding your attention.
Where the questions come from
For Money and work, each card below gives the credit for the questions that organization asks, printed word for word.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Financial well-being questions and scoring from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. CFPB does not endorse Nomigram.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
The job satisfaction question comes from the NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ), which is in the public domain. NIOSH does not endorse Nomigram.
Nomigram
Our own questions. They haven’t been validated yet.
None of the organizations named here endorses this site or its check-in.
The other four parts
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Health
Your body and mind, and how they’ve been doing lately
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Relationships
The people closest to you—family, friends, a partner, or chosen family
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Beauty
Art, music, and nature—and how much of them reaches your life
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Outlook on life
A way of seeing life, religious or not, that helps you through hard times
Make room for a closer look
51 questions give each part its own place, including the distance between what matters and how life is going.
Questions
Is there one overall score?
No, on purpose. Each part is shown on its own, and how much something matters is never multiplied by or added to how it’s going. The Office for National Statistics says even its own four questions must not be added together.
Should someone take it more than once?
Yes, that’s what it is for. It reads a moment, so the same questions a few months later can show what moved. A retake within a year asks 41 questions instead of 51, because the 10 statements about art and beauty are asked once a year.
Which questions are ours?
Most questions come from a government survey or a published scale, and they’re used word for word. The satisfaction and importance questions are ours, as are the outlook questions, and they’re marked wherever their answers show because they haven’t been validated. That’s the difference between an established measure and an experiment.