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DiabloD3 on April 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone ...

Maybe I missed it, but is 80-100k the average or the median? Because you have people like CEOs of major companies making million dollar salaries, and that will have an effect skewing the numbers.

ionfish on April 16, 2011 [–]

The median is an average. You probably meant to ask whether 80-100k was the mean or the median.

DiabloD3 on April 16, 2011 | [–]

This is why you don't post on HN before the third cup of coffee.

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