The problem which this study deals with is that of poor or low financial motivation among the workers of the Nigeria Airways in the period under study and how it affects the attitudes to work and the results of such attitudes. OBJECTIVE Four major purposes of the study are to determine the extent of financial motivation, the degree of performance of workers of the Airline, the extent to which the poor or low financial motivation affect the performance of the workers of the Airline and finally make some- suggestions. HYPOTHESES Two alternative hypotheses were formulated for this study. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY For the research methodology questionnaire and interview methods were used to collect primary data. Free random sampling and sample and sampling techniques were used to select the sampling size for Questionnaire distribution and interview respectively. DATA ANALYSIS Simple percentage and T-test were used as statistical tools to analyse the data collected from primary sources and to test the hypotheses formulated res pec lively. FINDINGS Based on the analyses for the data some findings were made which were, financial motivation in the Nigeria Airways is of very low level, the level of job performance of the workers of the Nigeria Airways 1983 - 1993 is very low, the low level of financial motivation significantly affects the workers performance on their jobs and that just as financial motivation is very low, all other aspects of motivation are low