Belgio 4° posto per gli stipendi più alti secondo l’OCSE

“Average” is a bad way of measuring salaries. No amount of “adjusting for purchasing power” changes that, because you do it for all the participants.

“Median” would be better.

I recall there’s context to this graph. In the case of the USA, if you remove the highest paid person, the average drops to 65000. If you drop the top 10, the average drops to 35000.

A few years ago I heard that a senior Google Dev would make 6Million USD a year. That’s a high end, sure. Think a bit about what that means in terms of “average” and how many people there are in the measurement, and what it means if dropping the top10 can effectively halve your result.

Same remarks can be made about Belgium, and all other countries high on that list.

An average is not a good way to represent this kind of data.