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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
six-figure
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a five-figure/six-figure/seven-figure etc sum (=an amount in the ten thousands, hundred thousands etc )
▪ The newspaper paid a six-figure sum for the photograph of the princess.
a six-figure salary (=one over £100,000 or $100,000)
▪ He’s now a top executive with a six-figure salary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An endorsement like that may make Mr Koons forget all about losing his six-figure copyright infringement suit.
▪ Any further hold up to the Spittalburn stretch will cost the taxpayer a six-figure sum for each week's delay.
▪ Bidders are now required to post six-figure performance bonds, to be forfeited upon failure.
▪ He missed the cut by eight strokes, collected his six-figure appearance fee, and split for a month at home.
▪ It may seem a little loopy that computer gamers have a league of their own, with six-figure prize money to boot.
▪ She lost her six-figure Hollywood income.
▪ Star players earn six-figure salaries but the average is about $ 30, 000 per player.
▪ Webbe is reported to want a four-year, six-figure contract.
Wiktionary
six-figure

a. (context of a numerical amount chiefly annual income English) Counted in the hundreds of thousands; 100,000 to 999,999.

Usage examples of "six-figure".

It felt like one moment my father was what he had been forever a journalist hanging around training grounds hoping for a few exclusive grunts from twenty-year-old footballers on thirty grand a week, and the next he was a bestselling author, cocooned by six-figure royalty cheques, regularly appearing on the artier kind of talk shows, getting recognised in restaurants.

By the time he was handed the last of his diplomas, Terry Fossino was a high-level Camorra drug operative, making six-figure buys and moving the cash through an intricate system that went through six different banks in five countries before settling in as clean money in a Camorrista account in Rome.

We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors.

By the time the publisher runs major ads, books the old geezers on the morning talk shows, and intimidates the sales force with a six-figure print run, every rube in America will have heard of it, and thousands of them will buy it for the novelty value alone.

As human rights violations go, it's hard to compare a machete murder with somebody nixing a six-figure endorsement deal for Puma tennis sneakers.

And if you take an Ordnance Survey Map for Oxfordshire, you find that the six-figure reference 313/271 lands you bang in the middle of Chipping Norton.

They make six-figure incomes while trading away our national security interests for ratings.