I don't really know what you mean by "grade" but I do know that you'll need to do your job to make all of your boses and users happy. You will sometimes have nothing to do at all and some days might be your worst nightmare. Programming is an intellectual type of work and cannot be graded based upon "how many pages of code" you might have produced per hour/day/week/month/...
I also wonder what kind of company that is if "one day development" could make amazing 35% improvement in the business productivity... If you like programming then get yourself a new job.