Why is Amazon hiring H1-B workers for Technical Program Management roles? :mindblown:
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#12These are not salaries, they are "Labor Condition Applications", which companies have to submit before they can submit any H1B application. The LCA actually has a range of pay (WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_FROM and WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_TO), so the way it is displayed here is pretty misleading. And even then, they reflect the lowest possible salary the company might pay an H1B worker. As someone who went through the process, I can sa…
Thanks for clarifying. Do you have some more info about this. Some page where these ranges are listed? I'm curious to understand how these numbers are derived as they seem slightly off to me.
The site links to the original data source, which has the raw data available as XSLS files:
https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#...
Re: Show HN: US H1B Worker Salaries Visualized for Easy Exploration
#13These are not salaries, they are "Labor Condition Applications", which companies have to submit before they can submit any H1B application. The LCA actually has a range of pay (WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_FROM and WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_TO), so the way it is displayed here is pretty misleading. And even then, they reflect the lowest possible salary the company might pay an H1B worker. As someone who went through the process, I can sa…
As an employer I can confirm this is correct. The salaries it reports for the people we have sponsored are far lower than what those people actually made at the time of the application.
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#14I tried a few examples I know, the data is not accurate.
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#15Also: http://h1bdata.info/
Seems to have more data.
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#16The bottom salaries might sound low in this forum, maybe because no one who is getting paid this kinds of salaries hangs around Hacker news.. ;) (I've known plenty of warm bodies dev's that make that kind of money)
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#17This is rubbish, at least for my company, where we hire 2 Software Engineer IIs with H1B, so it's easy to reason about the numbers. I was one of those 2 engineers until got promoted to a Senior a few months ago, and the number it reports for min and max are grossly inaccurate. My salary hasn't ever been nearly that low, I don't think any engineer of any rank in our company makes that little.
data comes from department of labor based on company filings. May b I m not extracting from the correct field so I will check again.
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#18I want to sort by salary so I can see who pays best/worst.
U mean to see which company pays the most? It's a little tricky since u prob want to based on average or median salary in tat case but then that will hide a lot of details without also separating by job/city/level etc.
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#19I am an H1B from India. I want to add one point.
My LCA says x salary. I get 3k more than that. Considering all yhe benefits, it comes to around y per hour. My employer charges the customer '1.76y' to '2.14y' depending on the project. So the customer is actually paying nearly twice of what I get paid.
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#20Data has been updated. It should be closer to actual wage now.