In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink argues that compensation isn’t necessarily what motivates people. Or it does, but only up to a point. Companies need only compensate employees to the point where they feel they are paid fairly. (I’ll talk more about that toward the end of this chapter.) Once you meet the bar of fairness, employees focus on the real reasons for work: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. I believe this is especially true for developers.
