# Price change on steam monthly price for OMEGA **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/price-change-on-steam-monthly-price-for-omega/150776 "2019-04-05T23:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Yiole\_Gionglao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yiole_gionglao/32/516090_2.png) [@Yiole\_Gionglao](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yiole_Gionglao)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/price-change-on-steam-monthly-price-for-omega/150776/206 "2019-05-01T16:05:26Z")
I will just remind you all that “average salary” is the place where people earning 1,000 and people earning 50,000 meet, and tells nothing on how many people earns each. Take Spain, FAI, gross salary in euros per year (2017): Average salary: 23,156.34 €/year Median salary: 19,432.62 €/year Mode salary: 16,497.40 €/year _Average salary:_ sum of all salaries divided by all employees _Median salary:_ half the salaries are higher than this salary and half are lower than it _Mode salary:_ the most frequent salary This means that in 2017 half Spaniards had a salary that was _at least_ 16% below the average, and the most usual salary was 38.8% below the “average” salary. If you ask the common folk in Spain and tell them that their “average” salary is 23,000 a year they will say “bollocks”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Solonius\_Rex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solonius_rex/32/388172_2.png) [@Solonius\_Rex](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solonius_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/price-change-on-steam-monthly-price-for-omega/150776/207 "2019-05-01T17:00:59Z")
> [@Yiole\_Gionglao](#): > > I will just remind you all that “average salary” is the place where people earning 1,000 and people earning 50,000 meet, and tells nothing on how many people earns each. I completely agree. ---
**Author:** ![Elena\_Laskova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elena_laskova/32/11436_2.png) [@Elena\_Laskova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elena_Laskova)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/price-change-on-steam-monthly-price-for-omega/150776/208 "2019-05-02T09:27:43Z")
Solonius I mentioned one or two of the things rich people can do to make income non-taxable. Even so, IIRC in “first-world” countries mean income is usually skewed upwards by high-income individuals (a simple (but not 100% reliable) indicator for this is the difference between the mean and the median). It varies by country though. And it can be done in other ways: someone looking to manipulate the statistics has many ways to skew them (like including/excluding people on state pensions) There’s also the “shadow/untaxed/invisible economy” to consider. It’s significant even in many “first-world” countries. Some countries estimate it, some don’t. Estimating it is good, but it means there’s a lot of cash available for a statistical cheat to use as a “slush fund”. In general I don’t think you can trust a surface analysis (like comparing mean and median) to draw conclusions you can be confident in. And my recollection could be wrong - it’s been a long time since I was current with this stuff 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/price-change-on-steam-monthly-price-for-omega/150776/209 "2019-07-31T09:27:48Z")
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/price-change-on-steam-monthly-price-for-omega/150776.md?page=10)