> Money is not the primary motivation for doing something. This is big myth. This depends on the culture, how honest those people are being, the greater econom

> Money is not the primary motivation for doing something. This is big myth. This depends on the culture, how honest those people are being, the greater economic situation of the people in question and many other factors. For a general overview, the StackOverflow developer survey (n=65'000) seems to suggest that about 70% of the respondents feel like compensation indeed matters a lot, more than any other factor: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#work-job-hunt-factors https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#work-job-hunt... > For the first time, we asked developers what drove them to look for a new job. Better compensation was by far the most common factor for respondents with 70% of them noting that more pay was important. Wanting to work with new technologies was the second most popular factor, which is consistent with what respondents reported as one of the most important priorities when choosing between two jobs. Curiously, they skipped that question in the 2021 survey, so it's not included at all. I can personally understand this viewpoint, seeing as i don't receive all that much money either and it would take me about 40 years of constant work to be able to afford my own house with my current earnings and small raises here and there. Plus, with my current salary there's no way i could afford, for example, cancer treatment or to address any of the other serious health issues that can arise in people.