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H1B Salaries in the US

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Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by littlegiantcap »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #18

Some context/theorizing about Edison, NJ. Edison is a largely Indian town. In particular, it attracts many people who don't want personal exposure to the US or non-Indians - such a lifestyle would be difficult anywhere besides Edison or Jersey City. They are only in the US to earn USD. My theory as to why Edison wages are so low: most of the Edison companies are low end bodyshops - if you need a warm body with J2EE,…

My roommate is from Edison NJ, and has voiced many of the same sentiments. He's said the community is incredibly closed off, and that in high school the Indian kids mostly kept to themselves.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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shalmanese wrote: post #38

There was another analysis a while back which showed pretty convincingly that the H1B outliers were due to someone fat fingering the salary and inserting another 0.

The vast majority of outliers do indeed seem to be data entry errors. There are a lot of cases where the prevailing wage is something like 85k but the person makes 890k. They probably actually make 89k.

Also, while I know New York is expensive I highly doubt any Assistant Research Professors are making 661 million dollars a year when the prevailing is 54k. More likely it's 66.1k.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by city41 »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10
georgieporgie wrote: post #6

It must really suck to be a senior software engineer making less than 95k knowing that there are probably some new grads that get an initial offer of more than that. Wait, really? By "some" we're talking "very, very few" right? Surely salaries haven't come that far since when I graduated.

Yeah, I agree here. I think that kind of offer is way above the norm, but don't forget, college kids often think they are going to make a killing right after school, and it usually doesn't pan out that way. But still, I think 95k for a senior software engineer at msft is pretty lowball, unless something is left out, like bonuses or something.

My annual bonus (cash and stock) at MS was about 30% of my salary. I dunno if that's the norm for the big/lucrative software companies or not.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by gojomo »

...being an H1B programmer in Houston doesn’t seem to be all that lucrative...

The 'Avg. WAGE_RATE_1' table puts the Houston salary at 67K, the NYC Salary at 112K.

But Houston has no city or state income tax, and much cheaper housing, food, transport, and other goods. In fact, according to the Cost-of-Living calculators at...

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htm... ...or...

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/mortgages/moving-cost-of...

..earning 112K in Manhattan is equivalent to earning only 48K in Houston. (112K in Brooklyn = 57K in Houston; 112K in the NYC suburbs of Bergen-Passaic NJ = 79K in Houston.)

So in terms of standard of living, 67K in Houston isn't so bad.

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Post by jbjohns »

gojomo wrote: post #44

...being an H1B programmer in Houston doesn’t seem to be all that lucrative... The 'Avg. WAGE_RATE_1' table puts the Houston salary at 67K, the NYC Salary at 112K. But Houston has no city or state income tax, and much cheaper housing, food, transport, and other goods. In fact, according to the Cost-of-Living calculators at... http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htm... ...or... http://www.bankrate…

I don't trust these cost-of-living calculations. Every time I've lived somewhere with a supposedly great cost-of-living I've felt poor (had to conserve my money) and every time I've lived somewhere with a supposedly bad cost-of-living I've felt wealthier. I can't think of a single exception.

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Post by [deleted] »

smokinn wrote: post #8
georgieporgie wrote: post #6

It must really suck to be a senior software engineer making less than 95k knowing that there are probably some new grads that get an initial offer of more than that. Wait, really? By "some" we're talking "very, very few" right? Surely salaries haven't come that far since when I graduated.

Well anecdotally people can get near 90 at Microsoft it seems. So it's not that far off. Of course the offer depends on previous experience such a internships and your job position (I imagine SDEs probably make more than SDETs and some teams pay better than others) but it's not unheard of.

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Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by keys1234 »

liuwei6 wrote: post #15
dmix wrote: post #5

Its interesting how the top H1B companies are IT consultancy companies. There are far too many enterprise I.T. consultants and I'm all for B2B adoption of software. I question how much value these consultants add sometimes. I hear so many stories of failed deployments and spending millions on projects a few competent individuals could of accomplished.

Outsourcing companies have lower salaries on average. Google salary http://www.salarylist.com/company/Google-Salary.htm?order=1 Microsoft salary http://www.salarylist.com/company/Microsoft-Salary.htm?order... vs Wipro http://www.salarylist.com/company/Wipro-Salary.htm?order=1 Accenture http://www.salarylist.com/company/Accenture-Salary.htm?order...

I have worked for one such company, the salary of a fresher joining such indian IT consultant companies range from 6k to 10k $ per YEAR.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by tricolon »

smokinn wrote: post #42
shalmanese wrote: post #38

There was another analysis a while back which showed pretty convincingly that the H1B outliers were due to someone fat fingering the salary and inserting another 0.

The vast majority of outliers do indeed seem to be data entry errors. There are a lot of cases where the prevailing wage is something like 85k but the person makes 890k. They probably actually make 89k. Also, while I know New York is expensive I highly doubt any Assistant Research Professors are making 661 million dollars a year when the prevailing is 54k. More likely it's 66.1k.

Regarding your second point: I thought those were aggregates.
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