Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME)

Finance allah shmoop what are normalized earnings All right this

is norm or it's supposed to be We just couldn't

get the licensing rights from him So this is our

public domain version of norm from cheers Sorry And this's

normal that's a bell curve Yeah you're in the ebola

abatement business Each year the government spends a few bucks

on you Just keep you alive Is a business in

case Well you know a few hundred million peoples faces

start melting off like you know that scene in indiana

jones you know the good ones so your earnings are

usually here and here and here and here a buck

a buck twelve twenty three twenty four years I'm like

that But then one year after miss malaria's high school

biology class takes a field trip to study monkeys bats

and beetle crap in caves in central ghana Well your

business picks up So this year when the gove is

having to spend a fortune on ebola abatement you were

nine dollars and forty two cents a share And since

world awareness has suddenly shot up the most popular yahoo

search term index that thing well next year you'll still

learn five seventeen to share even though most the ebola

is pretty much gone now But then things quiet down

in life goes back to normal where your earnings are

you know normal and you could plot some kind of

line through them And if someone asked you what normalized

earnings are in your little ebola abatement company well you

could say that your normalized earnings are in about a

buck twenty Well fortunately making out with the nigerian fruit

bat is not normal so you probably don't have to 00:01:40.539 --> [endTime] worry about contracting ebola Ooh