Finland is the country with the happiest workers as they achieved an overall score of 7.93. This is 0.15 more than the second placed nation, and 2.61 higher than the average score of all the countries. The Finns achieved this by having the highest world happiness score, and the joint most national holidays as well as scoring highly in all the other categories.

The small volcanic island of Iceland was the European nation with the second happiest workers, as they achieved an overall score of 7.78. Iceland also has 16 public holidays (the joint highest), they also have high average monthly wages at €3,221.

Norway scores very highly across all four factors to help them rank as the country with the third happiest workers, as they achieved an overall score of 7.75/10. Norwegian workers can enjoy the third shortest average working week (33.7), as well as the fourth highest average monthly wages (€3,313).

Yet another Scandinavian nation with extremely happy workers is Sweden who achieved an overall score of 7.49. Swedish workers can enjoy 15 public days off for holiday throughout the year, and on top of this enjoy average monthly wages more than a grand higher than the average across europe.

Denmark completes the quinary of Nordic crossed countries that have locked out the top five ranking positions for the happiest workers in Europe. On average the Danes only work 33.4 hours per week, and earn €3,562 per month on average which equates to over €25 per hour on average.