When the arithmetic mean is used to calculate this, it can be misleading because the salaries can be widely spread. Thus it may happen that 10% of the class have gotten excellent job offers while half the class is without jobs. Even in such a scenario, the mean salary can be a good number, but it hides facts behind it.
âGame of Thrones is a piece of the puzzle,â Pursel said. Time Warner owns HBO, which owns the television rights to the GOT franchise. In early February 2014, Time Warner formally released financial results for HBO. For 2013, HBOâs revenues were $4.9 billion with operating income of $1.7 billion.
In the UK, for example, there was widespread anger when the industry regulator predicted energy companies' profit margins would grow from 4% to 8% this year. Last year, five pharmaceutical companies made a profit margin of 20% or more - Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, AbbVie, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Eli Lilly. 'Profiteering' With some drugs costing upwards of $100,000 for a full course, and with the cost of manufacturing just a tiny fraction of this, it's not hard to see why.