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The survey reports the compensation data for 180 specific individual exempt salary positions commonly found in the accounting & finance, administration, education, engineering/research, health & human services, hospitality, human resources, information systems, manufacturing management, maintenance & service, materials & distribution, production control, sales & marketing, and quality control. Data for each such position is reported for the overall survey response followed by geographical breakouts of the data reported for the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island as well as further breakouts for Eastern, Central and Western Massachusetts.

Compensation data for each job is shown in simple, easy-to-read form, reporting the following statistical information:

Average: The average weekly salary reported for the exempt surveyed positions. This is calculated by multiplying the number of employees reported by their individual reported rates and summing the product of those totals. This sum is then divided by the total number of employees reported.

10th Percentile: The reported rate for a particular position or labor grade which is exceeded by 90% of the reported rates in that particular sample of pay rates.

25th Percentile: The reported rate for a particular position or labor grade which is exceeded by 75% of the reported rates in that particular sample of pay rates.

Median: The middle value of the distribution of rates for each job.

75th Percentile: The reported rate for a particular position or labor grade which is exceeded by 25% of the reported rates in that particular sample of pay rates.

90th Percentile: The reported rate for a particular position or labor grade which is exceeded by 10% of the reported rates in that particular sample of pay rates.