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Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#181
post #32

I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.

Looks as if you are looking at some different data set than we all are. Check out Netflix, Google, Twitter etc. - these are more than competitive rates.

Unless you went into bodyshop companies like TCS, Infosys etc. to make yourself feel angry.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#182

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That's not an unreasonable total compensation level for senior engineers in the bay area. Remember that Netflix does not typically offer bonuses, stock grants, etc, and just pays people a salary. While most other big tech companies (eg, Google) have salary as 1/2 to 3/4 of your total compensation, with the remainder being bonus and stock grants (or options). So in the Google table here, you will see far lower salarie…

Isn't it better the Google way? You will be taxed less since you can keep the stock for 1+ year and get taxed at the Long Term Capital Gains rate. Being almost all salary will get you taxed to death.

Options gets hit by AMT tax when you strike them(assuming your total income puts you into AMT). You're going to be screwed either with RSUs or options by taxes just little less with AMT.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not an unreasonable total compensation level for senior engineers in the bay area. Remember that Netflix does not typically offer bonuses, stock grants, etc, and just pays people a salary. While most other big tech companies (eg, Google) have salary as 1/2 to 3/4 of your total compensation, with the remainder being bonus and stock grants (or options). So in the Google table here, you will see far lower salarie…

Isn't it better the Google way? You will be taxed less since you can keep the stock for 1+ year and get taxed at the Long Term Capital Gains rate. Being almost all salary will get you taxed to death.

Options gets hit by AMT tax when you strike them(assuming your total income puts you into AMT). You're going to be screwed either with RSUs or options by taxes just little less with AMT.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#184

When searching for "google", one can find few interestingly named companies, like "google iniiii iiiiiiiiiiiiii": http://data.jobsintech.io/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&employer=goo... I wonder what those are about.

that's the next big thing

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#185
post #104

Wow, immigrants have no privacy in this country. Imagine, if US citizen salaries were made public like this. How would that make you feel?

Of course, hypocrisy runs rampant for this community. Privacy is important... as long as it's our privacy, not their privacy.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#187

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That is senseless, you dont need citizen control to check that the salaries are prevailing wages, that is a job that can be done by the government with multiple different agencies at a very low level of cost or risk. Also, it doesnt make sense because it doesnt include US employees salary of the same companies which is what you need to make that fair/unfair comparison. Even worse, the immigrants themselves can't make…

The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure, No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.

So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#188
post #158

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Or maybe because of their high turnover, to compensate the risk of what is known as "the culture of fear" there.

For $300k+ I'll take on some risk.

If you're a US person, why not... But for someone who needs H1B sponsoring and relocation (probably with a family as well), Netflix is the worst company to work for as your first American employer.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#190
post #161

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Isn't that because they hire a very small amount of very experienced people?

It's also because they explicitly prefer to shift as much compensation as possible towards salary as opposed to stock, benefits, perks, etc. They released a long presentation about why they do this, I think it's somewhere on Slideshare.

Slide #100 onwards: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
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