Probably the salary they deserve I'd guess. I worked at a company that hired someone from a similar school in NYC. They ended up letting her go after a month or two. These schools are a scam for the people that think they'll gain a career from them as well as the companies that think they'll get a competent dev.

With only 8 weeks of programming experience, I'd say that's a fairly high salary. I assume that the pay would rise over time until the salary after 4 years is comparable to (or greater than) what a newly graduated Computer Science major would make.