psychic income

American  

noun

1. the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.

---

Etymology

Origin of psychic income

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

May and White said that such cases belie Gov. Jerry Brown's famous assertion during his first term that UC professors should be satisfied with "psychic income."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2018

We get tremendous psychic income; we have met so many good people through horses.

From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2015

They also appreciate that aside from those who land corporate posts, few among them will ever get rich — not counting the psychic income that comes from being in the know.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2013

Moreover, a uniform provides no compensating psychic income to its wearer today.

From Time Magazine Archive

It helps to enrich the community with the immaterial goods of the spirit, and it yields the psychic income of dignity and joy in the individual and national life.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul