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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by throwaway2016a on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:03PM (#28872555)
I have no data to back that up but I think you may be right. We always show salary as a normal distribution but maybe it is bimodal.
Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:41PM (#28872955)
> We always show salary as a normal distribution but maybe it is bimodal.

Who are we? Which salaries?

Starting salaries for lawyers are one of the most famous examples of a bimodal distribution you can find. Salaries across the country generally are less bimodal than that. But salaries shouldn't be modeled as a normal distribution in any event. They skew high very easily, and they can never skew low.

Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by throwaway2016a on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:47PM (#28873582)
Sites like Salary.com mostly.
Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by loeg on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:32PM (#28873454)
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/ discusses this somewhat (2015 numbers).