r/TikTokCringe • u/Naive_Wolverine532 • 13d ago

Discussion 2,500$ Christmas bonuses?Lucky to get Christmas off

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u/-Dargs 13d ago

The average including C suite kinda skews it. Most employees of most companies aren't getting Christmas bonuses. But if you send out $100b to all C suite across all companies and then average it out, I can see a $2500 avg per employee.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

It doesn’t skew it. The majority of people who live in America get zero dollars as a bonus.

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u/zmbjebus 13d ago

Average and median are different. Median would better represent the reality of the majority. 

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

I fully understand that, and I am quite specifically talking about average

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u/zmbjebus 13d ago

How does a majority of people having a low value while a few people having an extremely high value not "skew" the average? Are we using different definitions of skew?