Personally, I don’t find this list of motivations to work particularly surprising. Most people enjoy challenging and exciting work to keep them engaged in their job. And generally this will go hand and hand with the career growth and development aspect. One thing I do find surprising is the only 32% who are motivated by fair pay. This isn’t saying money rules all, but I do think more than 32% of people would be much less eager to dive into a job and engage themselves in their role if they are being crucially underpaid. People like money. Also, this may be biased because I am personally motivated to make a beneficial difference in the work through my career, but the only 17% that care about that also seems very low. Overall, and I think I speak for most, all of these reasons play a slight role together in the motivation to work.