in a situation where salaries are somewhat fair and necessary funding for this is a given, I'd say you're absolutely right, people will understand there's fun a

in a situation where salaries are somewhat fair and necessary funding for this is a given, I'd say you're absolutely right, people will understand there's fun and not so fun work to do, but at least you're being paid well for all of it. but in situations where regular salary financing is tense (especially startups who are bootstrapping, or use private funds, or very little seed money), I feel people are more willing to accept less-than-industry-standard pay if the work is fun at least (of which there is only so much in a project). this is why I was trying to figure out whether someone ever transformed this into a salary distribution model.