What impact has your salary impact your work performance?

This is an interesting question and I think has a lot to do with our personal value system. While most of us take up a job primarily to earn a living, at least in our early years, real satisfaction from a job/career cannot be sustained from a salary alone. If a high salary happens to be coupled with one's interest, that's one thing, but taking up a job merely for the pay will result in a level of dissatisfaction in the long run and that in turn will affect long term growth and performance. In my experience, I have certainly seen salary as a motivating factor, but "happy" employees also look for things like job security, challenges and growth prospects, and perks (including stick options) etc.

i do work for smoeone, and salary do impact my performance and how i do at work, some time if we know other who work in the same level and get more salary than we have and he is have less knowledge and got higher salary than we have. people than become less motivated because of the different salary they have. so this is sometime become a big issue in the company. to overcome this issue, people should have some income out side their job.