It's why standard base pay plus 'incentive/commission' tends to work the best. Let me expand. Everyone gets paid the same base rate. Then you give an incentive

It's why standard base pay plus 'incentive/commission' tends to work the best. Let me expand. Everyone gets paid the same base rate. Then you give an incentive based on KPIs that AREN'T easily manipulated by an employee. For example, a good KPI might be on Time delivery of a project or ticket. Bad KPIs would be things like lines of code or number of tickets closed.