An AVERAGEIF function may help you. Example: A1:A100 contains the job titles
with duplicates, B1:B100 contains the salaries. You could put all of the job
titles in column C starting with C1, just once, no duplicates, sort them
alphabetically. Then in column D1 put the formula
=AVERAGEIF(A1:A100,C1,B1:B100) and drag the formula down so that there is a
formula in each cell in column D for every entry in column C. You will get a
"Formula omits adjacent cells error" for the formulas. Just clear the error
as it's meaningless in this case.
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I'm raking my brains...I have a table where column A has job titles,
column B has the salary. Column A has duplicate job titles, which is
OK, what I'm looking for is an average function that will give me the
average salary per job title. I know I could do this via a pivot
table but I was planning on using vlookup and/or average. I'm just
not getting the syntax correct. Any help?