rampa salarial

11:49 Jan 18, 2018 

I quite agree that the term "salary ladder" exists, as in "people trying to get on the salary ladder", but your description of the situation of the limits on an employee's salary within a given job, which makes sense, is exactly covered by the term "salary bracket"for the job.

23:18 Jan 17, 2018 

The term "salary ladder" seems to be a well-understood & commonly used term in English - I did a Bing search for it & got 115,000 hits.
Interestingly, what I would interpret to be the Spanish equivalent, "rampa salarial", or "escalera salarial" get basically no hits.
So, it could just be a mistake of some kind, as patinba suggests. Or, it could be a new, or uncommon usage, basically a metaphor. When I encountered the term "rampa salarial" it made sense to me. I took it as describing, as I tried to say in my answer, the trajectory of an employee's salary over time - maybe a scientist comes in with a bachelor's degree, makes $50k; after 4 years, he gets a bump to $60k; when he finishes his master's degree, he gets a bump again; if he moves into supervising other employees, he gets another bump. All this time, he's basically in the same job, but his salary ramps up over time. Obviously, there are limits: you can only get so far in a given job, no matter how well you do - if you want to continue to ramp up, you may have to move to a different job [description].
Of course, the fact that it makes sense to me doesn't make it real, or right...

11:43 Jan 17, 2018 

When you google a term and all you get is three hits in a chat context and a photograph of Tom Walker :) you have to doubt whether it exists at all. I suggest that a typo/OCR error is involved (trampa instead of rampa in the chats, but "rango" in this instance). In any case, "salary ladder" does not work in the context as it would give you "the salary ladder for the job" when it is clear that the offer to the employee is to be based on market rates and the wage bracket (or range) for the position established within the company (an entry level rate, and a maximum for the position before a change in category is called for).

23:59 Jan 16, 2018 

John,

I think you raise an interesting point and I am wondering if "rampa salarial" doesn't refer to a "step increase" within the same salary scale for the post.

23:52 Jan 16, 2018 

different "salary scales", whether you are the janitor, a clerk or the CEO. Now, as a janitor you may increase your salary over the years... Or as a clerk you may "ramp up" your salary, still being on the same salary scale. They seem two different concepts.

22:15 Jan 16, 2018 

They're probably just trying to avoid repetition, in which you could translate it simply as "that".