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By: Lisa Hendrickson

Lisa Hendrickson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:00:30 +0000

I’m 40, Head of household (puppy and 2 cats) female, own a business, have a college degree, own a blackberry and 4 computers. I guess I fit the demographic except I don’t make $109 a year, not yet!

Goal: make $109,000 in 2009

By: Brielle

Brielle — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:36:55 +0000

Where do they get the statistics? Same place as usual by sampling. You know how many people they survey to get the stats on anything for all of America? It’s a few thousand people from which they extrapolate.

I’m close to the average there. I’m 40. Make more than $109,000 (I am a household of one) but I’m female.

I do believe the male stats. Very few of my female business colleagues are on Linked In. It’s also no surprise that if the average user (or his household) is making 109,000 that he would be male.

The male-centricity of Linked In is a problem and it bothers me. It’s the old boys network online and something should be done to make it easier for women. Better privacy controls for example.

By: Steve Tylock

Steve Tylock — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:01:51 +0000

I’m with Mariam – let’s throw this back into question – where does that income number come from? A “statistically valid sampling”? I know they haven’t asked me – sure – statistically insignificant, but still;-)

steve

By: Steven Burda, MBA

Steven Burda, MBA — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:49:05 +0000

Interesting post… I am not 41 (yet) and do not make $109.7K USD (yet).

Lets revisit this in few more years…

-Steven Burda
http://www.linkedin.com/in/burda
http://burda.lyro.com

By: Mariam Ispahani

Mariam Ispahani — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:49:23 +0000

Howdy… I want to know where they came up with these numbers, because I never saw a survey we had to fill out with our info.

Re the stats, maybe given that there are so many CEOs and VPs, Silicon Valley folks, and people who tend to network a lot in biz circles, and all that jazz… thus, people in the higher income and high energy age groups came out on top.

-m-

By: Scott Ingram

Scott Ingram — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:48:44 +0000

I think this number sounds pretty legitimate, but is skewed by 2 different things:

One you mentioned, the “household” which will make the number substantially higher than if they’d said “individual income.”

I also imagine there’s some major skew provided by some really high numbers at the top. Michael Dell and many other Fortune 500 CEO’s and Executives are on LinkedIn. For each of those that has an annual income of $50M that would offset 500 users with $0 income and create an average across all 501 of $100,000. Clearly this would skew the number MUCH higher than a large stack of users with no income at all.

Happy Networking!

By: Anders Thomsen

Anders Thomsen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:55:46 +0000

I didn’t believe the figures either,so thanks for pointing out the bit about *household* income. Now it makes more sense, but it still seems a useless statistic to me anyway – many LinkedIn members are from parts of the world where salaries are very different from the US.

Sounds like another case of using statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post – for support rather than illumination.

By: Teena in Toronto

Teena in Toronto — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:08:07 +0000

Interesting stats!