It seems like the salary band, determined on experience, would at least give room for negotiation or adjusting wages, at least the hiring level. In terms of a

It seems like the salary band, determined on experience, would at least give room for negotiation or adjusting wages, at least the hiring level. In terms of a company with the wage structure it currently has, you would have to the executive level be interested in "normalizing" the wages, which would probably also cause a ruckus. Not to mention if you have people that, due to client relationships, work on more monetarily significant projects.