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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When the mean is vastly different from the median, it is a good indication that there is some significant inequity in the data set.

Mean averages everything, median **sorta** is an average that excludes the extremes.

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