Salary tables, salary grades and salary steps

By default, every job must have salary information, otherwise it is not shown. This depends on the site setting jobboard.salary.required. A job either refers to one or more salary grades or contains a free minimum and maximum salary, see Salary (palette "Remuneration").

How the salary records belong together

Salary table (optional, e.g. "Sample pay scale 2026")
 └── Salary grade (e.g. "A 9")
      ├── has steps:   Salary steps (step label + amount)
      └── no steps:    Fixed amount

Job, salary mode "Salary grade (tariff-based)" → one or more salary grades
Job, salary mode "Free salary entry"           → minimum / maximum salary

The frontend shows the lowest and the highest amount of all steps or fixed amounts of all salary grades selected in a job, for example "3,480.07 € - 4,342.82 €". If there is only one amount, only this amount is shown.

Salary grade

Grade (Gruppe): Name of the salary grade, for example "A 9", "R 3" or "B 3". Required, maximum 60 characters. Salary grades are sorted by this name.
Has steps? (Hat Stufen?): Enabled by default. Disable it for grades without seniority steps. Changing it reloads the form, because the visible fields differ.
Steps (Stufen): Only for grades with steps. At least one step is required. Not every step has to exist, gaps are allowed.
Fixed amount (Fester Betrag): Only for grades without steps.

Salary grade R 3 without steps and with a fixed amount — Salary grade without steps

In select boxes, for example in the job, a salary grade of a salary table is shown with the title of the table: "A 9, Sample pay scale 2026".

Salary step

Salary steps are created inside their salary grade.

Step (Stufe): Free text, for example "3", "3a" or "Entry step". Required, maximum 30 characters.
Amount (Betrag): Monthly amount. Required. You can enter the amount with a thousands separator and a decimal comma, for example 3.842,17. It is normalized when you leave the field.

A hidden or expired step is ignored, like a step that expires within the next 24 hours. If all steps of a grade are hidden or expired, the grade has no amount any more.

Validity of salary grades

Tab Access of a salary grade with publish and expiration date — The validity of a salary grade is maintained in the tab "Access"

Attention

The publish date and expiration date of a salary grade control the visibility of every job that uses this grade. When the period of a grade has expired (or not started yet), the grade is ignored. Jobs without another valid grade then have no salary information: if the site setting jobboard.salary.required is enabled (the default), they disappear from the list and their detail page returns "Page not found".

A grade or step already counts as expired 24 hours before its expiration date. Maintain the salary grades of a new pay scale in time, at the latest one day before the old ones expire.

Changes that you save take effect at once. When a publish or expiration date is reached without any change, the affected jobs are updated by a command that runs once a day, usually at night, see Update the effective salary of the jobs. A grade with a publish date in the future therefore counts for the jobs from the first run of the command after this date.

Salary in translated jobs

The salary of a job is the same in all languages. In a translated job, the fields Salary mode, Salary grades, Minimum salary and Maximum salary show the values of the default language and cannot be edited. Change them in the job of the default language, the translations take them over.

Salary table

A salary table groups salary grades, for example all grades of one pay scale. It is optional.

Title (Titel): Required.
Description (Beschreibung): Optional plain text.
Salary grades (Besoldungsgruppen): Salary grades of this table. Grades created here belong to this table.

The publish and expiration date of a salary table are for your own documentation only. They do not hide the table or its grades. The validity that counts is maintained in each salary grade.