Report: NBA median salary is $2.33 million

Posted on | Sunday, August 21, 2011 | No Comments

Posted by Ben Golliver.

Nobody likes math anymore but this is kind of important.

There are a bunch of ways to measure data in a group. If you're looking for a simple average, that's called the mean. Add up everyone's values and divide by the number of people. Easy. If you're looking for the middle, though, that's called the median. Line everyone up in order from smallest to largest and stop when you get exactly to the halfway point.

What's the difference? Mean is used far more often because it's very easy to calculate and understand. But median more accurately reflects the middle value in sets of numbers that have extreme values on one end of another that might skew things.

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