Typical compensation statistics include: the average and the median number of employees discretionary money all of the above money cannot be expressed in this way I discovered on a trip to Japan that cab drivers don't expect tips (even when they have to understand my horrible Japanese and I am desperate and lost!) What cultural aspects of compensation do you think hold there? the shared belief that everyone should be paid the same the shared belief that everyone should do their very best in their job, thus tipping is not practiced the shared belief that cab drivers should be rude, so they won't get tips anyway the shared belief that tipping is something to be embraced since it is all about performance the shared belief that you can't measure performance anyway