Don't you thnk WSO overestimates the salary averages in IB?

Where do they get these stats from? Because according to a bunch of MBA placement reports, the starting base salary for first year associate is 125K and the bonus is 40-50K which makes the total comp 165K-175K. While the WSO industry report is saying that the total comp of 1st year associate is 220K. Where did they come up with that? I know these MBA stats are just averages and there may be outliers but so are WSO's. So what am I missing?

 
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