Fair Salary Raises for City of Phoenix Employees?
Under Fire in Arizona Being from Arizona, I wanted to discover about local government. One of the datasets they have available was of City of Phoenix salary for fulltime employees. I wanted to check if the salary raises across the employees vary significantly or not depending on their income level . In other words, I wanted to see if salary raises are more likely if you get paid a higher salary. To test this I will use the below hypothesis: 𝐻 𝑜 : There is no difference in salary increase between above average and below average income earners. 𝐻 𝑎 : There is a difference in salary increase between above average and below average earners. 𝑎 = .05 significance level To accomplish this, I first cleaned the data to make sure only the employees that stayed employed by the city of Phoenix are included in our analysis. The next step is to divide them into two groups: Above average and Below average income . The manner of de...