salary scale - a table showing the rates of salary paid by an employer to employees at various level (called grades) of rank, responsibility, skill and length of service. The scale may also show the increments (regular annual increases) that an employee will receive while he remains in the same grade, rates of remuneration, usually annual in character, and having intervals between them, employees being able to ascend the scale as a result of age, length of service, merit, grade promotion, etc., loend, milles on ette nähtud riigiteenistujate jaoks kehtestatud ametikohtadele vastavad palgaastmed