Usage of "figure"

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I would really appreciated it if someone could let me know is there any issues in the usage of "figure" in following sentence. In actual fact, what I need to tell is there are two departments (department A and B). The proportion of employees in the department A is 25% and in the B is 50%. However, they earn same amount of money. In the following sentence, I didn't need to duplicate "number of" that why I decided to use "figure" instead of it.

Moreover, in contrast, they earn same an amount of money as the service department earn, despite the number of employees in the division being equal to half of the figure of service department, whereby their attitude towards the company and service department might be different.

GPY · Accepted Answer

It is all pretty hard for me to understand.

dileepaThe proportion of employees in the department A is 25% and in the B is 50%.

Proportion of which employees? Do you mean the proportion of employees of a certain type (e.g. women)? In other words, are you saying e.g. 25% of employees of Department A are women, while 50% of employees of Department B are women? (I just use women as an example.)

dileepaHowever, they earn same amount of money.

This sounds as if all relevant employees (e.g. all women) earn the same, whichever department they work in, but this appears not to fit the word "despite" that you use later. Are you somehow totalling people's earnings? Or something else?

dileepadespite the number of employees in the division being equal to half of the figure of service department

I assume "the division" is what previously called Department A. Does "number of employees" mean all employees, or only employees of a certain type? How does this "half" relate to the 25% and 50% figures that you mentioned earlier? It doesn't seem to follow (unless the departments have the same total number of employees?)

I am confused.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

dileepaThe proportion of employees in ~~the~~ department A is 25% and in ~~the~~ B is 50%. However, they earn same amount of money.

Do you mean that the total cost of labor for Department A is equal to that of Department B, even though B has twice as many workers? That implies that workers in A make twice the amount of those in B.

Or do you mean that the workers are paid equally, regardless of which department they work for?

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