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The data looks to be way way off. I looked at salaries in NY. There were several software developer jobs with salaries in the 1.6M range. Looking at the result set it looked like everything could be off by 10x. I can't see the site now to give specific examples though.

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Well the median is 95k in NY [1], which seems reasonable. Probably the average is higher due to these outliers, though.

[1] According to the spreadsheet that simonsarris shared in another comment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt...

Why is that so way off? Insane finance salaries also applies to developers.

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