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Let's take this one: CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST $457K What do you have to know to be worth this much to

• dman 16y ago
  Know the under documented legacy architecture inside out. Also helps if the bus factor of that arcane knowledge is in the low single digits.
  • Maro 16y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
• bhousel 16y ago
  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/view-2010-3805002-citigroup_global_markets_inc.html 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&entry_id=136 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.
  • apr 16y ago
    you've just shuttered my world cry
• gaius 16y ago
  There are HFT guys making this much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov