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It's quite frustrating that they track average rather than median wages. As wealth inequality increases, average will be less and less representative of worker
by throwaway27448 5mo ago
It's quite frustrating that they track average rather than median wages. As wealth inequality increases, average will be less and less representative of worker health.
- bwestergard 5mo agoThey do track median and 25th/75th percentiles.
- throwaway27448 5mo agoDo you have a link? There's no obvious place to look for this. All I can find is "Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by sex, quarterly averages, seasonally adjusted". Which is not trivial to extrapolate into a real annual wage. And it's not clear how "quarterly averages" and "median usual weekly earnings" compose....
- wombatpm 5mo agoOld joke: Bill Gates walks into a bar. On average everyone there is a millionaire
- actionfromafar 5mo agoThat's a really old joke. :) Here's a new one. Musk goes to a concert. On average everyone there is a billionaire.
- hackboyfly 5mo agoGold
- alexsmirnov 5mo agoI more like my high school math teacher explanation: "Put your one hand on dry ice, another in the boiling water. On average, you feel warm and cozy"
- lesuorac 5mo agoExcept dry ice is -100 and boiling water is 200 so you feel hot and not cozy.
- akirkland2 5mo agoYou're just adding the temperatures, you then need to divide by 2 to get the average - so it's actually 51.35 fahrenheit (10.75 celsius).
- throwwwll 5mo agoAmerican education