If you put in, say, $0 for your stock compensation, even though you receive stock compensation, it will average it in with equal weight as entries which include

If you put in, say, $0 for your stock compensation, even though you receive stock compensation, it will average it in with equal weight as entries which included actual values for their stock compensation. The same applies to cash bonuses. That plus, as you mentioned, including old, historical data with equal weighting to newer data will drag down the averages for both salary and total compensation.