どのような意味でしょうか

質問

I've been working within my industry for over 25 years. I've been working at my current firm for a year. Recently, we advertised a job opening. As regional manager, I screened the applications and passed my selections on to human resources to finalize. The candidate I preferred was a woman with 24 years of experience, "Barb." Barb was making $115,000 per year but said she was willing to take a cut. We decided to offer her the job.

When I got a copy of the offer letter from HR, I was astonished that the head of HR, "Sarah," had offered Barb $120,000. My other seven sales reps' salaries were averaging between $100,000 and $105,000. Only one of them was making $110,000, and he has 19 years of experience.

I had a talk with Sarah as to the reason for this unfairness. Her reply was that she had crunched the industry salaries on the market and decided to offer this amount.

crunched the industry salaries on the markeとはどのような意味でしょうか？よろしくお願いします

回答No.1

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crunched the industry salaries on the markeとはどのような意味でしょうか？

　 crunch は、下記の他動詞の２「処理する」と言う意味でよく使われる目的語は number です。昔の暗号機がバリバリと数字を飲み込んだ名残でしょう。
　https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crunch

　（同じ）市場での産業給料を処理した　＞　同業者間の給与額相場を比べてみた（結果）です、と彼女は答えた。

　原文の著者は、勤続年数の長い七人と「中の」比較で言っているのに反して、人事部長の Sarah は、同じ産業分野の「外の」比較で、物を言っているわけです。

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