What is the proper term to describe the levels of experience for a trade?
For the life of me I can't recall or even Google the proper term to describe the levels of experience for a given trade.
For example let's say there are 5 levels of experience to trade x:
- Rookie
- Journeyman
- Veteran
- Craftsman
- Luminary
What hypernym would describe these levels of experience?
I doubt there's any generally-accepted terminology, but in context, grade, level, or (more formally) competence would all be understood and accepted.
This article on medieval guilds calls them stages.
I have heard them called ranks when talking about guilds (medieval and modern).