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title: "[Legacy] Grades"
description: "What is a compensation grade?"
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# [Legacy] Grades

## **What is a compensation grade?**

A compensation grade is simply a grouping of jobs that have the same range for compensation. Companies implement grades when they get to a certain size and the operational burden of managing an individual range for every job becomes too great. Grades can also be implemented in order to ensure internal equity for jobs that the company wants to pay the same way, no matter what the benchmarking data says about their market value.

### **How do I import a grade structure?**

Grades can be imported into Pave via a CSV upload process or added manually. Then, they must be associated to jobs.


1. Uploading grades
2. Associate grades to jobs
3. Manually add a grade

Uploading grades (From jobs home page, click “Create” > “Upload Grades”) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=2724244d-01ea-4bc0-9f09-05784a3c66ef) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=b0331744-cb50-4162-9d12-f2013ad2f5b4)Required columns:

* Grade Group: This is a grouping of grades
* Grade Rank: Enter where the grade sits in the group. The higher the number, the more senior.
* Grade Display Rank: How the grade ordering is displayed

Optional columns:

* Name: If left blank, title will default to group and display rank
* Subgroup: This is a subgrouping of grades, if needed (e.g. IC or Manager)

Associate grades to jobs:

* Download the association template (From Jobs home page, click “Download Template”) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=2935ae00-33f3-46bf-bce3-3dfe3456f375)
* Add the Grade Name for each row/job in the template: ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=bfc8e4cf-9f5e-4957-b839-3e4b82fbdf61)Manually add a grade (From Jobs home page, click “Create” > “ Manually Create Grades”) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=5bfc38ea-d44e-4d5e-9587-ab468b00bae1) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=1b09d824-966a-4fbf-bb07-3a3552067452)

### **The Grade Manager:**

What can be done in the Grade Manager:

* View all grades in the organization, organized by function
* View the jobs within a grade and the details of a job, including the employees & bands matching to that job
* Delete a grade
* View jobs without a grade

View all grades in the organization, organized by function (From Jobs home page, click “Grades”) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=696dec5c-b832-49b8-b719-aa5e921d7d4d)View the jobs within a grade and the details of a job, including the employees & bands matching to that job (click on any job to see side peek): ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=a41c59e5-f3ae-423f-87d4-fd5408fcfea6)Delete a grade (From Grade Manager, click “Delete”) ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=3c413d43-e1a2-4f28-8365-3c6bbf98bf05)View Jobs w/o Grades: ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=b1927211-e2f5-4e0c-ac80-893dbca2aa42)