From my perspective this is the way things used to work, then we had the pay equality movement which was largely misinterpreted by corporations to mean "Same ti

From my perspective this is the way things used to work, then we had the pay equality movement which was largely misinterpreted by corporations to mean "Same title == same pay". The problem is that being a Junior on Team A may have the same cognitive load as being a Senior on Team B. I once led a team that was exactly like that. Saying "end perverse incentives" makes this seem like some moral oversight driven call-to-action but I think it's more complicated than that.