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The vast majority of outliers do indeed seem to be data entry errors. There are a lot of cases where the prevailing wage is something like 85k but the person makes 890k. They probably actually make 89k.

Also, while I know New York is expensive I highly doubt any Assistant Research Professors are making 661 million dollars a year when the prevailing is 54k. More likely it's 66.1k.

Regarding your second point: I thought those were aggregates.

That's true. There are also several instances where wage rate unit (monthly, weekly, hourly, bi-weekly or yearly) is set lower than it should, like $6k/hour when they mean $6k/month.

I hope that explains the $836,000 software developer at Microsoft and the $1,040,000 consultant at Mantis Technology!

Executives make multiples of those numbers. Why should it be unheard of that any software developer ever make that?