Fairly normal in larger organizations, has been the case in my past 3 jobs. I guess my last several orgs just kept that away from me then, for whatever reasons

Fairly normal in larger organizations, has been the case in my past 3 jobs. I guess my last several orgs just kept that away from me then, for whatever reasons they had. It's honestly surprisingly new to me that "committees" for such a thing are "normal" at large orgs. In those cases, I had a lot of autonomy over promotions-as a leader, other than the usual "get approval from the CFO for funding if there is a raise involved"; beyond that, coordinating promotions with my director what the promotion would entail was all there was to it.