eli5 Why do we use median salary instead of mean salary?

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Wouldnt mean salary be a better representation of the public then median?

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I had this explained to me by using Univ of North Carolina Business Majors from a particular year. I forget the exact numbers but the mean was super high because one of the people included was Michael Jordan, who made incredibly more than the others for reasons that had nothing to do with his degree. So median was much more representative as it wasn’t impacted by that outlier.

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