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There is a significant difference (>$3,000) between the weighted average and median of a specific job title. Does this mean there is an error in the data?

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There is a significant difference (>$3,000) between the weighted average and median of a specific job title. Does this mean there is an error in the data?

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This only means that a particular firm reported a job title with both an unusually high number of employees and an average salary of significant variance from the norm. In this situation, we advise users to use the median because it is not weighted by the number of employees reported.