"beyond one's pay grade" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from the correspondence of pay grade to level of authority in U.S. civil service and in the U.S. armed forces.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "above one's pay grade",
      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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        {
          "text": "1971, Testimony before U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services,\nSir, I think that is a policy decision only the President can make. That is beyond my pay grade."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Beyond one's level of authority."
      ],
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      "links": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Beyond one's level of authority."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "lang_code": "da",
          "sense": "beyond the speaker's authority",
          "word": "over min lønramme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "sense": "beyond the speaker's authority",
          "word": "oltre le proprie competenze"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
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          "text": "Figuring out how it would work logistically is above and beyond my pay grade and my brain power.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Beyond one's capability."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "capability",
          "capability"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Beyond one's capability."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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  "word": "beyond one's pay grade"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Possibly from the correspondence of pay grade to level of authority in U.S. civil service and in the U.S. armed forces.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "above one's pay grade",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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        {
          "text": "1971, Testimony before U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services,\nSir, I think that is a policy decision only the President can make. That is beyond my pay grade."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Beyond one's level of authority."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Beyond one's level of authority."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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          "text": "Figuring out how it would work logistically is above and beyond my pay grade and my brain power.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Beyond one's capability."
      ],
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          "capability",
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Beyond one's capability."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "beyond the speaker's authority",
      "word": "over min lønramme"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "beyond the speaker's authority",
      "word": "oltre le proprie competenze"
    }
  ],
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  "word": "beyond one's pay grade"
}