pay grade in the US

[Hodan94]

OK. So im just skimming through jobs available online for my friend.
newly graduated,, there's a job she is interested in that is pay grade 13. what are the ranges of salary in that grade?
can someone explain how these grades work. in the uk we have bands instead.

[Grant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sc ... y_scale%29

These only work for civil service, that is, government work. See the chart at the bottom of the page.

[SultanOrder]

Is she joining the armed forces because civilians don't use pay grade

[Grant]

"The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions. As of September 2004, 71 percent of federal civilian employees were paid under the GS, with the remaining 29 percent were paid under other systems such as the Federal Wage System (WG, for federal blue-collar civilian employees), the Senior Executive Service and the Executive Schedule for high-ranking federal employees, and other unique pay schedules used by some agencies such as the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the Foreign Service. Starting in 2009, some federal employees were also paid under Pay Bands."

My father was a GS 14, a civilian working for the US Air Force.