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as an american, i have to assume its because its a bigger number. "graphs go up and right, and bigger numbers are better." is a motto for a lot of terrible practices here.
one of these that has been bothering me lately is when people state something like "ten times less!". this statement means nothing to me, but it has a bigger number than a % of total.
The other reason likely has to do with taxes. If I was making 50k a year and filing my taxes as a single earner, I'm going to end up with a different take home vs if I was married filing jointly and my spouse made 300k. Plus all of the other things we can have and adjust as deductibles and pretax things like 401k, 403b, Insurance, HSA, etc.