Salary tables, salary grades and salary steps

Every job must have salary information, otherwise it is not shown. 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. 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: they disappear from the list and their detail page returns "Page not found".

Maintain the salary grades of a new pay scale in time, before the old ones expire.

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.