If you create a table of mimimum salary and associated grade, sorted so that
the lowest salary is at the top of the list, then this is a perfect
application of the vlookup function. Suppose your table is in the range
$A$1:$B$6, with salary in column A and associated grade in column B. Then if
you have an employee's salary in A20; the associated grade is found in B20
using the formula =vlookup(a20,$A$1:$B$6,2).
--Bruce

"Tami" wrote:

I need a formula to return a value in a column (say column B) for a number in
Column A based on a range: EX: As in grading, A = 90-100, B=80-90, etc.
I have a column of data of various salaries. If the salary is between x and
x, i need to return a corresponding letter set up by our salary grades.


example: here are the values
Grade Level A 29,000 - 30,000
Grade Level B 25,000 - 28,999
Grade Level C 23,000 - 24,9000

Column A Column B
Salary Grade Level
$29,500.00 A
$26,500.00 B
$25,100.00 B
$24,000.00 C

I want a formula in column B, that returns the corresponding value from
column A in column B. I tried IF statements using and = but I cannot get
it to recognize the range. thanks!