trwilcox197805
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Sorry if the title is strange but this is a bit of a last gasp.
I am trying to figure out how someone got a number. I know that they divide total wages by average employment
At the moment, I have 52,450,298,928 / 1,179,739 = 44459.21139. Then divide that by (52*40 or 2080) and it comes to 21.37462. I need the quotient from the first ratio to be 42,848. Which then if you divide by 2080 yields an end result of 20.60.
The report produced by someone else in the past show an end value of 20.60. The issue is that while I am assuming that they used the method shown above, there is no documentation of what data or how they got the number.
I am running dozens of scenarios as to how this person got this number. My question is this. Is there some method/formula for devising how much my numerator and denominator have to decrease by in order to achieve 20.60. The numerator and denominator in this instance can't increase. I realize that there a high number, if not infinite, number of combinations that will produce 20.60. I am thinking that if I know the relationship between the two values changing that I can decode this mess better.
I am trying to figure out how someone got a number. I know that they divide total wages by average employment
At the moment, I have 52,450,298,928 / 1,179,739 = 44459.21139. Then divide that by (52*40 or 2080) and it comes to 21.37462. I need the quotient from the first ratio to be 42,848. Which then if you divide by 2080 yields an end result of 20.60.
The report produced by someone else in the past show an end value of 20.60. The issue is that while I am assuming that they used the method shown above, there is no documentation of what data or how they got the number.
I am running dozens of scenarios as to how this person got this number. My question is this. Is there some method/formula for devising how much my numerator and denominator have to decrease by in order to achieve 20.60. The numerator and denominator in this instance can't increase. I realize that there a high number, if not infinite, number of combinations that will produce 20.60. I am thinking that if I know the relationship between the two values changing that I can decode this mess better.
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