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What is an Earnings Quartile and what do the dollar signs mean?
Earnings Quartiles seperate wage and salary information of people employed in an occupation or industry into four parts. Dollar sign symbols are used to represent the following:
  • 4 dollar signs ($$$$) = Very high (Greater than $51,580)
  • 3 dollar signs ($$$) = High ($32,930 to $51,450)
  • 2 dollar signs ($$) = Low ($21,790 and $32,380)
  • 1 dollar sign ($) = Very low (Less than $21,550)


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