You may be one of those for whom 'average' is below-par. However--as you- or those you hire-do not hold a majority of the control over 'average'--you have to check against the current average to make sure that you're (for example) getting paid as much as you deserve and or -that you're paying your professionals as much as they deserve.

Yahoo-writer Mike Krumboltz has here assembled a list of links to constantly-updated average-amounts.