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Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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I came across this link which lists in detail every H1B petition filed by an employer over last few years. One interesting thing is that they list the actually wage offered by a company for a given position to the beneficiary of each petition. This perhaps a more accurate representation of salaries in Tech industry than the glassdoor review.

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post #2

I came across this link which lists in detail every H1B petition filed by an employer over last few years. One interesting thing is that they list the actually wage offered by a company for a given position to the beneficiary of each petition. This perhaps a more accurate representation of salaries in Tech industry than the glassdoor review.

Indeed! Thankfully, someone has compiled this data and made it easily searchable: http://www.salar.ly/

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Can anybody tell me why wage offer and prevailing wage don't match up? Is there some kinda limit on what an immigrant can be paid?

H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.

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Can anybody tell me why wage offer and prevailing wage don't match up? Is there some kinda limit on what an immigrant can be paid?

H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.

Haha, having worked in the Indian offshoring industry for the last 9 years, I can only say that this is a joke. At least 100 of my co-workers have moved to US with wages much less than their American counterparts.

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Can anybody tell me why wage offer and prevailing wage don't match up? Is there some kinda limit on what an immigrant can be paid?

H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.

Oh, I see! So the "prevailing wage" column is the one that is the wage in the area. I understand now. I misunderstood it to mean "the wage which they actually were able to get after being employed".

Cool. Thanks for the explanation!

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