I've played the "salary band" game too many times to believe this. Let's tie your salary to your title so that we have to promote you before we can pay you more

I've played the "salary band" game too many times to believe this. Let's tie your salary to your title so that we have to promote you before we can pay you more. Rather than, say, having salaries reflect the actual market and having titles reflect people's actual roles in the company. The only blame for being underpaid that falls on an employee is staying somewhere they aren't valued longer than they should. We owe it to our families to get paid what we can [sustainably] earn.