My contributions are meaningful, valued, and rewarded.

A school caretaker unlocks a building at twenty to seven so that four hundred people can have an ordinary day. Ask the four hundred whether it mattered, then ask the payroll system, and you get two different answers. Both are accurate about different things.

Meaning, recognition and money run on separate circuits. They can be wired together and frequently are not, which is a fact about organisations rather than about the person doing the work.

Worth keeping the three apart in your own accounting, too. Otherwise a quiet month on one of them gets read as a verdict on all three.