Why any salary value you quote must be reliable.
Some Internet sites show a median value rather than a mean.
Why Buying Power should also be considered in assessing a salary offer. Some Internet sites show a median value rather than a mean. You can tell when Internet site data are most likely guesses and they don t wish to ever defend their numbers. You can see this when a site reports only medians, rather than means. This will, by definition of the term arithmetic mean, usually require computing a weighted average.