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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Median is better because people can grok ‘half of people are below this amount, half are above’. Whereas you can’t make any such conclusions about average salary because of income inequality.

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