pay grade
noun
A grade or level on a pay scale: workers are to be balloted by the union for a proposed strike over the secretaries' pay grades...
- The salaries of the remaining employees will be cut with the size of the cut depending on the pay grade.
- With time, he'll work his way into a higher pay grade with more responsibility.
- The last cycle promoted more than 24,000 Sailors to their next pay grade.
Phrases
be above (or beyond) one's pay grade