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One company instituted, early in 1959, a vertical classification system consisting of four levels.

There is no formal equivalence to the supervisory ranks ; ;

the top non-supervisory level, senior staff engineer, enjoys status and pay ranging up to that for the second level of engineering supervision.

The second level, senior engineer, rates slightly below first-level supervision.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.