Correct. Prior to a couple years there was no correlation (at least at the AVP/VP levels) on the title and pay grade. It was an excellent way for the bank to pay less while st-----g the employee's ego. And it wasn't just U.S. Bank doing it. In fact Chase was known to have around 10K VPs.
But all that changed in the last couple years and now those titles can only be assigned towards a certain pay grade. They did try to reconcile those who were grandfathered so 99% of the titles are now in alignment with the pay grade (11,12 - Officer, 13-15 - AVP, 16,17 - VP etc.)
Funniest office title is that of SEVP in my opinion. Imagine how big of an egotist it must take to not be content with the title of Executive Vice President (less than 25 hold it in 75,000+ company) that they need to step it up to a SENIOR Executive Vice President. Ha! It gets meaningless after a point.