I think what you were asking — basically you’ll always be assigned the lowest of the band, it’s not like HR looks at your past experience and has the leeway to give you something higher in the band like normal jobs.
And then like he said, the annual raises bump you up in little amounts. And if you’re at a level 11, for example, and transfer to an 8, if you’re cpc you’ll keep all your money that will fit in the band- you’d go to the top and lose some money (I think, don’t have he numbers in front of me).
If you were at an 11 and complete D3 status for example then washed out before you checked out and they nested you to an 8, you’d go to the d3 band at the nest facility (even though training-wise you’d be essentially an AG) and keep whatever fit in it—prob go to the top and lose a little.
If you notice, usually the top of one payband is the same as the bottom of the next so when you check out at the new facility they nest you to you move to the bottom of that new cpc payband (and you don’t get a raise).
Can be good and bad. On the one hand you don’t get a raise and have that to look forward like all the other trainees, but the whole time you’re there training you’re making way more money than if you progressed as a new hire.
Obv my examples are based on a certain scenario, if you start at lower levels and wash early, it would be different.