Problem
The following statistics represent weekly salaries at a construction company. \begin{tabular}{llll} Mean & $\$ 555$ & First quartile & $\$ 440$ \\ Median & $\$ 595$ & Third quartile & $\$ 650$ \\ Mode & $\$ 525$ & 89th percentile & $\$ 778$ \end{tabular} The most common salary is $\$ 525$. The salary that half the employees' salaries surpass is $\$ \square$.
Solution
Step 1 ：The problem states that the salary that half the employees' salaries surpass is the median salary.
Step 2 ：From the given statistics, the median salary is \( \$ 595 \).
Step 3 ：Therefore, half the employees' salaries surpass \( \$ 595 \).
Step 4 ：\(\boxed{\$ 595}\) is the salary that half the employees' salaries surpass.
