North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO grades

Browse NATO's current G1–G24 Single Salary Spine and understand each grade's official category.

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Important: NATO maps its 24 grades to managerial/professional, linguistic, administrative/technical, and manual/technical categories. The vacancy defines the precise duties.

NATO grades

Single Salary Spine

NATO's current 24-grade remuneration and classification structure.

G-1

NATO grade G1

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-2

NATO grade G2

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-3

NATO grade G3

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-4

NATO grade G4

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-5

NATO grade G5

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-6

NATO grade G6

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-7

NATO grade G7

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-8

NATO grade G8

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-9

NATO grade G9

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-10

NATO grade G10

Support and technical

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-11

NATO grade G11

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-12

NATO grade G12

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-13

NATO grade G13

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-14

NATO grade G14

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-15

NATO grade G15

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-16

NATO grade G16

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-17

NATO grade G17

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-18

NATO grade G18

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-19

NATO grade G19

Professional

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-20

NATO grade G20

Senior leadership

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-21

NATO grade G21

Senior leadership

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-22

NATO grade G22

Senior leadership

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-23

NATO grade G23

Senior leadership

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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G-24

NATO grade G24

Senior leadership

Requirements depend on the post category and vacancy

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Using this guide

Choose by duties, not code alone

  1. 1

    Start with the system

    Confirm the employer and whether the label is a staff grade, contract level or institution-specific band.

  2. 2

    Read the exact grade

    Use the career-stage and scope notes as orientation, then check the official vacancy requirements.

  3. 3

    Open current jobs

    Each grade page connects the guide to active vacancies indexed with that exact, system-aware grade.

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