What is the difference between the average monthly salary and the median recruitment?

Although the national average monthly salary in the first quarter of this year was 1.0 1.0 1 yuan, I think the median is more valuable than the average.

1, average

Friends may say that their salary expectations are reasonable and they don't want to find a high-paying job, as long as they can reach everyone's average level. Such pricing seems reasonable, but there are still problems. Let's look at the definition of average-average refers to the sum of all the data in a set of data and then divided by the number of data.

Let's take a look at this jingle first: the Wangs have 10 million and the neighbors have nine poor people. On average, all of them are Wang Million. Where is the average million roots? The head effect, Wang Qian who lives in the head. Therefore, personally, it may not be low for friends to set their salary expectations at the average level, because the salary distribution of college graduates is uneven, and the people in their heads raise the average level. If my friends think I'm talking nonsense, take myself for example. I have been working for 16 years, and I am still struggling to catch up with the average income of the school.

2. Central value

Median is defined as a set of numbers (or the average of the two data in the middle) arranged in descending order. Back to the jingle we talked about just now, the median property of the Wangs and their neighbors is not 1 million, but poor, because there is a long tail of poor families behind them. In our common news, reports and statements, the average is the most common thing, but it is rarely the median, because the head and the long tail often make the average look better than the median. It is this beautiful average that makes my friend's salary expectation inflated and I still feel wronged.

To sum up: Personally, if friends want to adjust and determine their salary expectations according to statistical data, the median may be more meaningful than the average.