This study aims to determine and analyze the direct and indirect effects of rewards and individual abilities on performance through job satisfaction. This research was conducted at the Human Resources Development Agency of South Sulawesi Province, with the number of samples used were 118 employees. The method used in this research is path analysis with the SPSS software approach. The results in this study indicate that: 1) direct rewards have a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, 2) individual abilities on job satisfaction have a positive and significant impact, 3) rewards on performance have a positive and significant impact, 4) individual abilities on performance have a positive and significant effect, and 5) job satisfaction has an impact on performance positive and significant. The indirect effect shows that the award has a positive and significant effect on performance through job satisfaction, and individual abilities also have a positive and significant effect on performance through job satisfaction.