The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze the effects of compensation, recognition, and career developing opportunities on work engagement and their impact on job satisfaction of the employees of the Secretariat Office of Aceh Province, Indonesia. Of 621 employees of the Secretariat Office, 192 of them were taken as the sample of study using the proportionate stratified random technique. To gather the data, questionnaires were distributed to the respondents and analyzed using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. The study found that compensation and career development opportunities have positive significant effects on work engagement, while recognition did not. Similarly, except for recognition, compensation and career development opportunities were also found to affect positively and significantly satisfaction. Finally, the work engagement is found to mediate significantly and positively the influence of compensation and career development opportunities on job satisfaction. These findings suggest that to enhance work engagement, the focus should be given on improving work satisfaction on the basis of increasing compensation and providing wider career development opportunities for the employees.