Posted on 09/28/2025 9:05:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“The median of the states is not the median of the entire country.”
The states are not the country??
Maybe what you said was not what you meant.
“It says full-time, employed, retired does not play a part in this.”
Understood. I was also adding the point that the income of part-time snow bird residents, and the millions of tourists (all of whom spends tons of money in Florida as well as contribute costs in terms of the infrastructures that support their presence) are not part of the average salary survey.
100%, and I totally agree with you.
While and interesting chart, salary alone doesn’t tell much of a story, as far as a state’s overall economic health.
No, that is not what I said. There are something like 200 million workers in the U.S. distributed in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Even the “mean” or average of the states is not the average of the country. States like California, Texas, Florida, and New York have much larger populations than most states, and pull the average, or mean. They also pull on the median, but not as much. If you continue your process of eliminating outliers, to its logical conclusion, you will have exactly one state left, Ohio. It’s median will be the median of all the steps along the way, 51 states + DC. In fact if you pull states at random from the upper 26 and lower 26, selecting the same number of states, in any order, the median will not change. Try it.
“No, that is not what I said. There are something like 200 million workers in the U.S. distributed in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Even the “mean” or average of the states is not the average of the country.”
Actually the report shows that. It gives, at the end, the median for the whole country of $61,702.
Whereas if you take the median for all the states minus Washington D.C., you get a median for all the state’s medians, of $60,235, which close to the middle rank of the states - Ohio ranked 26th @ $60,300.
But it depends on how a “country” average, mean or median is taken. This report seems to have used a different methodology in determining the median for the country - $61,702, because that is not the median of the medians for all the states - which would be $62,069.
I changed no numbers and I changed no states medians by removing Washington D.C., which, in multiple different ways is an economic outlier. The numbers I listed were the numbers from the report.
Math is hard for some people. Sorry you could not be more wrong about the arithmetic. It is unsurprising that the national median is similar to the median of the states, but the way you “calculated” it by removing outliers will always leave the median of the treated population unaffected. Did you even try it in Excel or google Sheets? Remove any five members in the top 25 and any five in the lower 25, and the population median is unaffected. It proves nor demonstrates nothing about the population. You can remove any identical number from the top and bottom 25 and the median will be unchanged.
“Math is hard for some people. Sorry you could not be more wrong about the arithmetic. It is unsurprising that the national median is similar to the median of the states, but the way you “calculated” it by removing outliers will always leave the median of the treated population unaffected”
I did not remove any outliers from the medians that were reported by the publication. I ONLY removed an outlier from the listing, not any calculations reported. I have no problem with math. You have a problem reading, because here I am repeating I did not change the publications reported medians.
I made only one calculation of my own, in a follow up post, which was in finding a different country/national median from the published number, to one that took a median of the states medians the publication reported. Again, no outliers were left out.
Quit making up an issue that did not take place.
I have been living and working in FL for the last 14 years all while making MD money. I quit my job in MD, boss lady said let him work from home in FL.
Sweet deal!
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