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Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by acveilleux »

radmuzom wrote: post #8
tarikjn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Prevailing wages" is one of those statistics that can often be surprising. The bottom line is that some businesses, sample size and definitions of how the jobs are aggregated can drag the average down.

If you classify someone as a "Web Developer" then they will fall in bracket that is ~55% of the "Computer Programmer" bracket (this data is by County so it varies a lot by geography).

AL programmers are paid from 61k to 95k. SF programmers are basically 20+k higher.

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Post by nmcfarl »

state_machine wrote: post #20
nobodyshere wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many companies forbid internal discussions of salary. You can easily guess why.

In the US, federal law bars employers from forbidding internal discussions of salary and benefits. http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/salary_discussions.html

Interesting - I've worked at US companies with policies just like the one at the top of that page. I had no clue they were illegal. Hard to enforce was obvious though, and I do remember breaking such a policy at least once.

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Post by [deleted] »

state_machine wrote: post #20
nobodyshere wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many companies forbid internal discussions of salary. You can easily guess why.

In the US, federal law bars employers from forbidding internal discussions of salary and benefits. http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/salary_discussions.html

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Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by craigts »

acveilleux wrote: post #21
radmuzom wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Prevailing wages" is one of those statistics that can often be surprising. The bottom line is that some businesses, sample size and definitions of how the jobs are aggregated can drag the average down. If you classify someone as a "Web Developer" then they will fall in bracket that is ~55% of the "Computer Programmer" bracket (this data is by County so it varies a lot by geography). AL programmers are paid from 61k…

This can also be the reason you see a company having multiple disparate titles or changing them seemingly at random.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by bfwi »

It doesn't look like applications from Google have been denied. Since the H1B visas are drawn in a lottery where there's three times as many applications as the quota, how are Google able to get all their application certified?

EDIT: Apparently 21/2436 have been denied. That's still nowhere close to 2/3 though

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by pessimizer »

nmcfarl wrote: post #22
state_machine wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, federal law bars employers from forbidding internal discussions of salary and benefits. http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/salary_discussions.html

Interesting - I've worked at US companies with policies just like the one at the top of that page. I had no clue they were illegal. Hard to enforce was obvious though, and I do remember breaking such a policy at least once.

There are policies that the company can't disclose your salary, but I think that people just assume the existence of a (highly illegal) policy that says that you can't discuss your own salary. I make a point of telling anybody who wants to know, and when the specific number is relevant to a conversation (not very often) to not hesitate in giving it.

It's the least I can do for fellow workers, and I know that my salary is no measure of my worth.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by jackhammer »

bfwi wrote: post #28

It doesn't look like applications from Google have been denied. Since the H1B visas are drawn in a lottery where there's three times as many applications as the quota, how are Google able to get all their application certified? EDIT: Apparently 21/2436 have been denied. That's still nowhere close to 2/3 though

I can't find my own H1B in the database. I don't think the data is complete.

EDIT: I found another page that actually did have my own H1B: http://h1b.myftp.org/ . However, I believe it did show one H1B in my company as approved which is actually denied.

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