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Yeah, not the entire pay structure is that way, but there are several payment catecories where your "top" salary is determined exclusively by degree.
But here's the weird part: most highly (academically) educated people stay out of public service jobs, either because of the bureaucracy clusterfuck or because they can make a lot more money in the private sector (because public service is very underfunded). That's not to say that there aren't any people with degrees in those jobs, but from what I've seen they're the minority.
Idk about the bias part. Definitely possible, but I haven't looked into it, so I can't definitively say. I will say that German society as a whole tends to value education and a degree fairly highly (likely a remnant of the last few centuries of German culture where those factored into your societal standing even stronger). That has already created an issue where people who aren't well suited to academia try to go to higher education rather than training in a craft, which has caused a shortage of specialized tradespeople.