promote ***
upgrade **
advance ***
kick upstairs
raise *****
elevate *

He'd probably be kicked upstairs to an administrative position at M3.

He doesn't strike me as the kind of priest who'd want to be kicked upstairs or anything like that.

A long-term noncorn who was kicked upstairs beyond his ability?

He'll be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement.

"That," he announced rather thickly to no one in particular, "was the face of a man about to be kicked upstairs against his will."

"We'll get the materials but the rest we'll have to kick upstairs."

He tried to picture Emma, the girl who'd been carried kicking and screaming upstairs, doing that with a grown-up.

Had he been, in your own expressive phrase, kicked upstairs, the result would have been a major political crisis.

"That was when Grigory got kicked upstairs to his dead-end job."

So the boss has been kicked upstairs with the rest of the administrators: a bold bunch, those Y employees.