What is meadian of salaries? > There are 100 employees in a company. 46 employees have salary 20, 000 ${$}$, 25 employees have salary 30, 000${$}$, 16 employees have salary 40, 000${$}$, 11 employees have salary 60, 000${$}$ & 2 employees have salary 150, 000${$}$. What is the median of salaries? my try: arranging salaries in increasing order as 20000, 30000, 40000, 60,000, 150,000 now the median of given salaries $$=(\frac{5+1}{2})th\ term=3rd \ term=40, 000{$}$$ I don't know if I am correct. please explain me if I am wrong & give me the correct answer. Thanks

The median is the value that divides the distribution in two. So you have to order the salaries _with their multiplicity_ and take the value that lies in the middle. Since you have an even number of salaries, the median corresponds to the 50th and 51st values, but _only if they are the same_ : this holds in your case and, therefore, your median is 30k$.