<story><title>What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population</title><url>http://ramiro.org/notebook/income-software-engineers-countries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frogpelt</author><text>Is it meaningful to compare the &lt;i&gt;median&lt;/i&gt; annual income of software engineers to the &lt;i&gt;average&lt;/i&gt; annual income of the general population?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m legitimately curious, what is the statistical significance of an average versus a median?</text></comment>
<story><title>What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population</title><url>http://ramiro.org/notebook/income-software-engineers-countries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>option_greek</author><text>While this is interesting, its conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt as the average median income of general population in India tends to be aggressively underestimated. This is because less than 5% of the populace pays&amp;#x2F;declares tax. The ones in private&amp;#x2F;government employment happens to be the ones paying tax while any one having &amp;quot;business&amp;quot; income tend to lets say &amp;quot;downplay&amp;quot; their income to get various subsidies or to just hoard money.</text></comment>