[johnclass]

Employees not focusing on salary may be good for the employer, but even the least money-minded employee will begin to care about the amount of money they are making, at some point. As an employee, there is nothing wrong in focusing/being motivated by money among other things.

[joeemison]

I agree that there's nothing wrong with being motivated by money as an employee, but there's lot of strong research that, as an employer, you keep more employees based upon non-monetary aspects of the job. If, as an employer, you start focusing on money, it better be because you (a) want that as your culture, and (b) can pay a whole lot.