2. We took our identified median (p50 of the U.S. national average for HR Managers), and divided it by half of the range spread. This is expressed formulaically as Min=Mid/(Spread/2). Put another way, we took $88,186 and divided it by 1.25. To get the maximum, we took the minimum and multiplied it by the range (in this case 1.5). This is expressed formulaically as: Max=Min*Spread. We can check our math here by taking (Max-Min)/Min to get the range spread (it should be 50% in this case).For our first example, let’s assume a hypothetical widget technology company wants to target the 50th percentile of the U.S. national average salary for the midpoint of their HR Manager pay grade. Let us further assume that the company intends for the median employee in the HR Manager population to fall at the midpoint of the job’s pay range. Finally, let us assume that the pay range spread (i.e. the distance between the bottom and top of the range) is 50%.