I know when I put my all into my work I am rewarded greatly.

Rewards arrive in currencies people forget to count.

A joiner's first joint that closes without a gap pays out immediately and privately, and nobody else in the workshop looks up.

Some of it is slower. Being handed the difficult one because you handled the last difficult one. Being trusted with a key. Getting asked rather than told.

The payout schedule is irregular and rarely announced, which is why it helps to notice the small ones as they land. Otherwise the ledger only ever shows what went in.