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The thesis examines the effect of intragenerational social mobility on the subjective well-being of individuals, specifically in the United Kingdom. It takes into account income as well as occupational status of individuals as independent variables, with general happiness (subjective well-being of an individual) as the main outcome variable. Income and occupation are two important indicators that measure socio-economic status of individual. The unit of analysis are individuals in this dissertation, since the entities measured will be individuals. Furthermore, the thesis researches within an individual’s lifetime “intra-generational” rather than “inter-generational” mobility, which means changes of the social position within an individual’s lifespan, rather than between the generations. In terms of methodology, the dissertation uses fixed-effect model. This thesis aims at looking at the effect of income and occupational mobility on general happiness. It seems, based on the results, that any change of the occupational or income status would have some impact on individual’s person happiness (be or more or less) and would have some influence on it, be it male or female.