Case $2$: word$-$of$-$mouse: Dot$-$com Comparisons

More compensation information is available than ever before. Click on the website www$.$salary. com or on

www$.$glassdoor.com. This site provides pay data on hundreds of jobs in cities all over the United States in many different industries. Identify several jobs of interest to you, such as accountant, financial analyst, product manager, or stockbroker. Select specific cities or use the U$.$S$.$ national average. Obtain the median, the $25$ th and $75$ th percentile base wage, and total cash compensation rates for each job. Then consider the following questions:

$1.$Which jobs are paid more or less? Is this what you would have expected? Why or why not? What factors could explain the differences in the salaries?

$2.$Do the jobs have different bonuses as a percentage of their base salaries? What could ex$-$ plain these differences?

$3.$ Do the data include the value of stock options? What are the implications of this?