On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: >> --------------------------------------snip >> In this awful, miserable, depressed year, at a time when at least one >> in 10 Americans are jobless, the average pay for Goldman's 30,000 >> employees is expected to clock in at $700,000. >> > > This number makes it sound like the company is brimming with millionaires. I > doubt that a meat-and-potatoes programmer makes more than $100,000 per year > (as opposed to those developing derivatives logarithms.) Throw in a 20 > percent bonus and you still are nowhere near that figure. A more accurate > figure would be based on the *mean*. I imagine that the mean salary might be > closer to $75,000 a year given all the clerks, messengers, etc.
You mean the median, not the mean? -raghu. -- "Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
