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Income in those professions is not bimodal; it follows a power law. The frequency distribution of income for US lawyers has two clear modes (local maxima) at ar
by sjy 9y ago
Income in those professions is not bimodal; it follows a power law. The frequency distribution of income for US lawyers has two clear modes (local maxima) at around $50,000 and $160,000 [1], meaning that roughly the same number of lawyers earn each of those salaries. Put another way, a randomly-selected US lawyer is more likely to earn $160,000 than the much lower mean US lawyer salary.
[1]: https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/the-toppling-of-top-tier-lawyer-jobs/ https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/the-toppling-o...
- rxhernandez 9y agoI literally posted a bls link where they discussed how bimodal at least a couple of those types jobs are. Did you bother to ctrl+F "bimodal" in that link? Furthermore upon a quick glance at your source, nothing in your source seems to discuss any of the jobs I had mentioned. Were you hoping your gut feeling was evidence enough?
- sjy 9y agoThe bimodal distributions mentioned in that source are not salary distributions.