It's a very nice situation and problem to have.
In literally all cases, it's many employees chasing after one job so employers can be picky. But there's always going to be the top level of talent that all employers want, and when they chase after those talents, for some bazziare reasons many still stay in the same mass market mentality.
For me, my work motivation, would be, in no particular order money, being respected and valued by the company and doing a job I enjoy. In my penultimate job, after nearly a 20 year stint with them, I ended up with the last only. Then I moved to my last job thinking it would be good to try something very different from my previous role. But I never 'got' the role and did not enjoy it at all even though I was capable of delivering. So although I got the first two motivators, it was just painful to carry on. Luckily I was in a position where I could afford not to work and that was the end of my working life... and the start of full time blogging (which doesn't pay my bills that well 🙃)
A person needs to know when to move on, and I believe if an employee stays purely for the reasons of gathering money they may put their overall happiness in life in jeopardy; yes, we all need money to live, but having it and living miserably isn't generally going to work so well.
Those eight it so hours at work can have a huge effect on the other sixteen hours of the day and, I think at least, a person should be making the right overall choices, as you seem to have done, to minimise the risk of leading a life less engaging and fullfilled as it probably should be.