Someone is exaggerating. Nobody gets a 6 figure position on one year of experience with no degree. Didn't even happen during the height of the tech boom, and it isn't happening now. If you have 1 year of the hottest skill on the market maybe you can fetch $75k from a desperate company, in the rosiest scenario imaginable. Someone with 5-10 years of experience, an uncommon skill, and good presentation can get $100k.
I’d be tempted to agree. I do know that we had a female working in HR in a training/development function. She got picked up by a tech company in 2002 and was reportedly offered in the $220,000 range.
She was a 26 year-old staff manager at an international company for ~3 years at the time though. Had a business management degree too.