This band/grade/salary/level question pops up a lot so, I am creating a thread to archive it.
At Ford, the salary grade ranks have no A or B or C suffix distinction, so those salary bands are invisible per se (but they do exist, as HR does publish salary ranges for each rank by percentile).
Fresh college grads hire in at GSR 5 (GSR=General Salary Roll) and get promoted to 6 in one to two years.
Engineers then progress through level 7 until they stagnate at level 8 and never get promoted again.
The first layer of management (they're company car eligible) begins at LL6 (LL="Leadership Level") and ends all the way up to LL1.
Those folks are all termed MR's ("Management Roll") which is a relic of an older, archaic system of Ford ranks.
The engineering titles are (in order):
- Supervisor (LL6),
- Manager (LL5),
- Chief (LL4),
- Director (LL3), and then
- VP's (plain ol' VP and Executive VP) / Corporate Officers' are LL2's and LL1's.
There is a very rare technical track (especially after last week's layoffs), and of course other organizations have their own titles, especially in manufacturing and purchasing.
Feel free to expand or correct.