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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by jaysonelliot on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:16PM (#16878488)
Median is the appropriate measure to use if you're looking at the overall pay of a company's workforce.

Average/mean is disproportionately influenced by a small number of highly paid employees.

In this case, the article is clearly demonstrating that despite Amazon's commanding market share, incredible wealth, and the largess bestowed upon their executives, some of their workforce is so poorly paid that they may not even make a living wage.

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by goshx on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:20PM (#16878540)
That median is not US only.
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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by baby on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:45AM (#16883183)
> Median is the appropriate measure to use if you're looking at the overall pay of a company's workforce.

I would disagree with that. Imagine this dataset of salaries:

[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10]

You have around half employees being paid like shit (1) and half being paid well (10), but the median will show a good salary (10).

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