Rishi Kinger — Global Compensation & Pay Structures

  • The Peter Principle: A Design Problem Hiding in Plain Sight

    I’ve been toying with the idea of the Peter Principle for over a year now, ever since I first came across it.Eventually, it stopped feeling like a people problem.And started looking a lot like a design one.The Peter Principle describes a pattern where people are promoted based on success in their current role until they…

  • How Pay Ranges Get Distorted Over Time

    Pay ranges rarely break because of a single bad decision.They distort through a sequence of reasonable ones – over time. This isn’t theoretical. It shows up repeatedly in conversations with decision-makers — hiring pressure, discomfort with internal comparisons, and a vague sense that something has shifted without a clear moment of failure. What follows isn’t…

  • What Pay Ranges Are — and What Pay Ranges Are Not

    Pay ranges were never designed to motivate, inspire, or signal potential. They were designed to bring order to pay decisions.