I believe that row is a mistake too..

Here is the record that seems to be throwing off the average: http://www.immihelp.com/h1b-sponsoring-companies-database/vi...

The web app mentioned in the article is really great for searching and give you lots more useful information: http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/exit.php?url_id=847&...

EDIT: I work with Citigroup as a consultant on their internal legal applications (including the immigration tracking database). I did a quick search and I can promise, without revealing what is in the database, that the inflated numbers for the Citigroup positions are obvious typos.

We track base wage, prevailing wage, and upto wage. So (as a completely made-up example) if I see a position with a base wage of 95k, prevailing wage of 100k and upto wage of 1.15M, it's pretty obvious that someone just entered an extra zero.

In short, there are no Sr. Programmer Analysts here making $1M/year or even $400k/year. Nothing to see here.

you've just shuttered my world cry

Know the under documented legacy architecture inside out. Also helps if the bus factor of that arcane knowledge is in the low single digits.

There are HFT guys making this much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov