Definition: If you lined up, in order from highest to lowest or lowest to highest, all the salaries of people working in a particular occupation, the median salary is the one that falls at the midpoint of that range. The median salary is less likely than the average salary to be skewed by outliers, for example an extremely high salary or an extremely low salary that may be earned by only a few people.
Common Misspellings: medien
Examples:
Actuaries earned a median annual salary of $87,210 in 2009 (U.S.).
