Countering active admin flight

Obviously real-life community recognition.

Cash and gifts in my opinion are more likely to attract people who want cash and not creating encyclopedic content/

Do you suppose we have any admins who would be embarrassed if their employer discovered their hobby? More importantly, how many admins want to remain anonymous because they were involved in a content dispute in which they were threatened? I suspect, given the extent to which both occur in practice, that real-life community recognition would not make as much positive difference as anonymous gifts or payments.