avearges are averages.
The average hours worked per week in the U.S. was 38.7 hours as of 2021. Men worked an average of 40.5 hours per week
so comparing a salary in US using hour rates, can lead to a very different result in Sweden.
In the case of working hours, the Swedish median, mode and mean are heavily divergent, since the distribution is truncated at 40 hours by the law and thus heavily skewed.
which makes it a maximum.
Thanks for confirming that it makes no sense to compare hourly rates between Sweden and Seattle, where people could work 60 hours a week.
