Not in SR5, nor in SR4 before it : expected Payment is calculated from the value of the goals, and the difficulty as the hirer sees it. s. Mr Johnson offers payment according to what he knows (as the GM, you determine that), not what he tells the runners. Examples:
Mr. J works for Saeder-Krupp and sends the team against Novatech. He wants them to sabotage the delivery of some fish - and wants it rerouted to him. He doesn't tell them, that the fish is a genetic prototype, and that he wants to serve it to his dragon boss Lofwyr. To him, this goal is worth more than the obvious, so he will offer something between mid to high level instead of the low level appropriate to the way he makes it appear.
A different Mr. J works freelance. He is contracted to hire runners to sabotage an electricity station, no more info given. He doesn't know, that the triad that contracted him has a chance to break free some of their boys because the prison is supplied by that electricity substation. He will offer a payment based on the low level sabotage he thinks it is, not the mid level it is really.
