The study aims to explore correlations between selected sociodemographic, occupational prestige variables and happiness at work (HAW) in a selected stratum of literary translators. Using the self-report data, the study employs contingency tables in order test several research hypotheses. The research reveals that, schizophrenically enough, the majority of academic literary translators exhibit fairly positive happiness styles despite their average status, influence, appreciation and low remuneration. An indirect relationship between time dedicated to translation and HAW has been revealed. This article also identified the direct correlations between the academic literary translators’ status, the level of remuneration and HAW. The results of the study not only cast light on under-investigated aspects of literary translators’ self-perceptions of the strands of their professional happiness, but can be used as a roadmap for exploring the selected correlations both in the same as well as different translatorial microhabitus in domestic and foreign translator landscapes.