For instance, the adjectives slim, scrawny, and svelte all have related denotative meanings (thin, let's say) but different connotative meanings. And if we're trying to pay someone a compliment, we better get the connotation right. Here's another example. The following words and phrases all refer to a young person, but their connotations may be quite different depending, in part, on the context in which they appear: youngster, child, kid, little one, small fry, brat, urchin, juvenile, minor.
Average Salary Information for US Workers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median wage for workers in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2016 was $849 per week or $44,148 per year for a 40-hour work week. Wages were 2.9% higher than at the same date for the previous year, a gain of 1.8%.
The average salary is 24,000, but most people earn less. Most people have an above average number of feet. In his fourth lesson of a weekly series, author Michael Blastland cracks the myth of the average.ith incomes, to take another example, many people are aware that the average in the UK (also known as the mean) is about 24,000 a year (in fact, about 463 a week).