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> COMPACT SOLUTIONS LLC 4 SOFTWARE ENGINEER 1801250

> EMORY UNIVERSITY 12 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 794454

> COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC 3 ENGINEER II 308533

Does this surprise anyone else? Wow!

FTA: "The top 5 can be discarded because of obviously faulty entries in the database (as much as I would like there to be a company that pays the average software engineer 1.8 million USD a year!). The first legit average seems to be the three Citigroup analysts making an average of roughly $450K."

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