If You Had to Choose Which is more important, a high salary or comfortable working conditions? These workers in Mumbai, India (left) talk to North Americans who are confused about their computers, their bills, or their online orders, while the two men at the right are on an oil rig, spending months or even years off shore, far from their homes. Their pay is five times greater than that of the Indians. Do extrinsic rewards matter to you more than intrinsic ones?