New Jersey Employee Salary Comparison

Ryan Kuhn, CPA
Data Science Specialization
John Hopkins University

Objective

The purpose of this presentation is to explain why the NJ Employees Salary application is relevant.

Application Overview

  • Downloads a sampe of data from the NJ Open Data website using the SODA API
  • Create a theoretical distribution with the same characteristics of the sample data
  • Collect an input from the user and estimate the percentile this input would fall in the salary distribution

Example Inputs

Here is an example of the output using these two inputs:
Salary: $100,000
Year : 2014

The app will show a chart with the distribution of the salaries and comment with comparison of the salary input to the mean of the distribution.

Chart Output

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Benefits

  • Allows user the ability to quickly compare their salary to the NJ state employee's
  • Plot is easy to understand at a glance. No need for lengthy explanation.
  • Minimal inputs (2) which should reduce confusion

Questions?

For any questions, please contact me at kuhnrl30@gmail.com.

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