The full sentence from the article says "on average", which I take as "mean", because later they make a distinction between "average" and "median". > In most r

The full sentence from the article says "on average", which I take as "mean", because later they make a distinction between "average" and "median". > In most rich countries, real pay has grown by at most 1% per year, on average, since 2000. Later: > Thus labour productivity rose by 75% in America from 1973 to 2016, while average pay rose by less than 50% and median pay by just over 10%. But the article is largely an opinion piece; the statistics are not completely fleshed out.