Challenge: Make the Salary Column Proper

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Problem statement

The values in the salary column of the staff (DataFrame) are stored as a string. We need to convert it to a numerical format to make calculations.

There are two issues that we need to solve before converting it to a numerical data type.

  • We need to remove the “$” sign at the beginning.
  • We need to remove the “,” used as the thousands separator.

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