Pivot table calculated field

[Guest]

I have created a pivot table to display salary information for employees
across several departments and job titles. From the salary column I have
created several data fields: Count of Salaries, Avg Salary, Max Salary, Min
Salary. I would like to create several addtional fields as follows: Median
Salary, 25th percentile, 50th percentile, and 75th percentile.

I have been unable to create Calculated fields to display these values. Any
idea as to how I can do this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Hi Neil,

Bad news - you can't do this in the pivot table. Why? 1. As you have
discovered Excel has only 11 built in functions for summarizing data in the
pivot table. 2. Even though you can create a calculated field and use the
MEDIAN function with it, the results are meaningless because you can only
apply the MEDIAN after Excel has summarized the data, and to calculate this
statistic you need to have access to the raw data level within the cache, and
we don't.

You might create the calculations outside the pivot table

 

[Guest]

I was afraid of that. Thanks, Shane. I appreciate the help!