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If they are suppressing the median for your job in that location then they are.

If its a very expensive place then your not making "good" money everything is relative -) and ok we re probably all better of than some black single mom in some decaying Rustbelt city it doesn't make it right for your employer to beak the law.



Suppressing the median doesn't hurt more than the bottom half.


um no that's not how it works moving the median lower also pulls down the top half as well.

Its effectively changing the distribution of salaries positive skew in statistics speak




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