The value of a wage or salary that divides the set of salaried jobs (ordered in ascending order of their full-time equivalent monthly wage or salary) into two equal groups. One half will contain salaried jobs for which a monthly full-time equivalent wage or salary is no higher than this value, the other half no lower.

Wages and salaries for individual salaried jobs are converted to full-time equivalents.

Data on wages and salaries are presented in gross terms, i.e. including advance personal income tax payments and obligatory social insurance contributions (retirement, disability, sickness insurances) paid by the employee. They cover wages and salaries paid in a given month. Wages and salaries also include payments under contracts of mandate, contracts to perform a specified task and agency agreements if these contracts were concluded with the same employer or to the benefit of the same employer with whom a given person is employed on the basis of an employment relationship