input: from typing import List
  
  def get_average_salary(filename: str) -> float:
      """ Compute the average salary from the given CSV file 'filename'. 
      The CSV file is structured as follows:
      "name, salary"
      Each line contains a name followed by a salary.
      The function skips the header and sums up the salaries and counts the number of entries
      to compute the average salary.
  
      >>> get_average_salary('example.csv')
      2000.0
      """
output:     with open(filename, 'r') as file:
          lines = file.readlines()[1:]
          total_salary = 0
          count = 0
          for line in lines:
              name, salary = line.strip().split(', ')
              total_salary += float(salary)
              count += 1
          return total_salary / count if count > 0 else 0.0