A four-star general with over 30 years of military service makes $15,690.90 per month. That is an annual salary of $188,290.80.
Data is a plural of datum, which is originally a Latin noun meaning âsomething given.â Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning âfacts or pieces of informationâ (These data are described more fully elsewhere) and as a singular mass noun meaning âinformationâ: Not much data is available on flood control in Brazil.
Data are any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed by a computer. Today, organizations are accumulating vast and growing amounts of data in different formats and different databases. This includes: 1  operational or transactional data such as, sales, cost, inventory, payroll, and accounting.