Interestingly salary alone isn't enough to make a job satisfying. Too little money can make people unsatisfied, but more money ends up being neutral. In business they call employee salary a dissatisfier, because at best it is neutral. For a job to be truly satisfying it needs to have meaning beyond the money. That being said, I'd gladly settle for simply not being dissatisfied. And I'd relish the opportunity to prove that a $10 million per year salary would make me satisfied with my job...for exactly 1 year. Then I'd be satisfied with retirement!