Annual earnings of athletes, coaches, sports officials, and related workers, upper limits of quartiles and selected deciles, 1998 Annual Earnings First decile $11,900 First quartile $13,900 Second quartile (median) $22,200 Third quartile $38,800 Ninth decile $124,000 Deciles divide the dataset into 10 equal-size groups and quartiles divide the dataset into 4 equal-size groups.