Wrong/weak metrics. A better metric than the max, one that is less susceptible to noise, and more indicative of the trend, is the sum of an upper quantile. A

Wrong/weak metrics. A better metric than the max, one that is less susceptible to noise, and more indicative of the trend, is the sum of an upper quantile. A common one is the "top 1%". I would have loved to see a graph of the total remuneration to the top 1% of college leaders (pres and others) by year.