Word: median
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salaries paid to people securing positions through his office range from $4000 to $10,000, with a median figure of $5500. These persons are all holders of some Harvard degree, and the positions vary from classroom work to presidential offices. Out of 680 calls for teachers, the appointment office felt itself able to fill 367 with persons of the proper calibre. Of this group there were 140 public school classroom teachers, 119 college teachers, and 97 private school teachers. Besides these actual teaching positions, the office also supplied 77 superintendents and principles as well as 28 vocational counsellor...
Miss Pidgeon found that the average median* wage of girls surveyed was $12 per week. Only 7% earned as high as $18 per week, while 25% earned less than $10. Chain-store girls earn about one-half of what women do in other industries. One girl out of four was under 18, only a very few over 25. Only one girl out of ten lived away from home on her earnings...
...half of a given number earn more, one-half less, than the median...