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Codesmith Grads - Stop lying on your background checks. Your OSP is not 'employment history'. I've received a number of couple of people having trouble with background checks because they put their project as 'work experience'. STOP.

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u/peppiminti wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Unfortunately, that response didn’t answer my question. What was the reason behind choosing to market with average compensation instead of median compensation when average is easily skewed? 

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
My answer is it doesn't matter that much as long as you realize your ROI is much higher than the cost. I don't know the website data off the top of my head but for 2025 (unofficially quick math on our live tracking database) $125K average increase and median is $123K increase. This is running match on the increase (or decrease) per person and then average OR median of those numbers. Our live data is missing people who haven't been processed yet, we have ballpark 5 Amazon placements in the past two weeks and 5 Meta placements in the past month and that's not in there - usually those are higher.