Premium
Above the middle by design. Materials, execution or brand carry a deliberate premium that the buyer is choosing to pay.
Also called high-end.
How it connects
Not linked to any other term yet.
Beside it in Tier: Value, Mid-market, Luxury (tier), Economy, Midscale, Upper midscale, Upscale, Upper upscale, Luxury (tier), $, $$, $$$, $$$$ and $$$$$.
In other taxonomies
- Getty AATno equivalent
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Premium
4 terms, Value to Luxury
Record
upscale is NOT recorded here as another name for this term, though the trade uses it that way, because tier.chain-scale.upscale is a different rung on a longer ladder. Letting the word resolve to both is how the two scales would quietly become one.
- Also called
- high-end
- Rung
- 3 / 4Above Mid-market, below Luxury. Positions on this scale mean nothing against another one.
- Provenance
- evidencedbrand-positioning vocabulary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05) and project budget bands in a project-materials database (src-07), read 22 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/tier/market/premiumKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026premium market positioning via https://vocab.getty.edu:443/sparql; luc:term search, AAT preferred labels and English scope notes, LIMIT 150 | none |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026premium market positioning via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search | none |