Question: I need an adjective for the term "financially motivated." The word I'm looking for isn't exactly greedy or rapacious. Although it can have connotations like that, the word needs to directly mean something more similar to "he does his job well if there's money (or perhaps just incentive) on the line."

Thanks in anticipation.

Answer: 
**avaricious** [TFD](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/avaricious)

adj

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> immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.
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> When you put the most **avaricious** in charge, they use the tools of
>  governance to further enrich themselves. New York Times Dec 7, 2018
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I suppose you could say that one is "economically ambitious". To get it into one word you could say "greedy" but this implies a sense of self-centered focus without regard to others. 

A term we use to describe effective salespeople is often "coin-operated"