Grade Ladders

Grade ladders group grades and grades with steps in the sequence in which your workers typically progress.

You create grade ladders either from the Manage Progression Grade Ladders page (in the Compensation work area) or from the Manage Grade Ladders page (in the Workforce Structures work area).

Grade ladders describe the grades and steps to which a worker is eligible to progress and compensation value associated with that grade and step. You may create different grade ladders for your enterprise: one for technical grades, another for management grades, and a third for administrative grades.

Ladders with Grades

You create ladders with grades by building a hierarchy of grades that were created without steps. When you set up this type of ladder, only grades without steps are available to add to the ladder. You can't create a grade ladder with a combination of both grades and grades with steps.

You don't define any grade rates when you set up a ladder with grades; the rates for the grades within the ladder are inherited from the rates that were added when you set up the grades. To add or edit rates for grades, you must use the Manage Grade Rates task.

Ladders with Grade Steps

You create ladders with grade steps using grades that were created with steps. When you set up this type of ladder, only grades with steps are available to add to the ladder.

You define step rates when you set up the ladder, and the rates are unique to each ladder. You can't share step rates between grade ladders.