Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA • Hacker News Board

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

#101

Post by negrit » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

Serow225 wrote: post #47

negrit wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I am still cleaning the data. It's all unbelievable the amount of crap you can find in the public records. I have a lot of duplicates unfortunately. Down the road, I'm planning on providing a couple of cool charts/map about trends and evolutions.

For search result of a company name, can you sort the results descending by # of LCA? this would put the most likely true result of top, I think. I also noticed that the sort buttons (for salary) behave backwards of what I'd intuitively expect? Would it be possible to auto-merge likely duplicate company names? Great job, keep it up!! :)

I'm currently coding both feature. :)

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

#102

Post by negrit » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

conanbatt wrote: post #91

For all the H-1B is "cheap labor complains" the fact that this information is public is horrible. Its a very asymetric relationship with your colleagues. If this were really meant to be about transparent controls, it should be tied to the wages of the other employees. Cant believe there isnt a single comment about privacy issues regarding this here. EDIT: after scrolling a bit I did find some. Kudos to that conversat…

People who know me, worked with me, ... can find me easily in this database and checkout how much I was paid.

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

#103

Post by gdilla » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

Even though this is anonymous, at big companies like Apple, you can see executive salaries with specific enough job titles that it's easy with a little LinkedIn sleuthing to know the person's identity. http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/apple-inc/2013?order_sal... - you know the person is a foreigner, and you know about when they began their job.

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

#104

Post by oimaz » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

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

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

#105

Post by forgotAgain » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:50 PM UTC

oimaz wrote: 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?

Public employees salaries are public records in the US. Many local news publications will publish a searchable list.

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

#106

Post by laacz » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

It strikes me as odd that Microsoft is second[1] - being ahead of companies which specialise exactly on acquiring workforce from outside US.

1: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies

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

#107

Post by oimaz » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:52 PM UTC

forgotAgain wrote: post #105

oimaz wrote: 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?

Public employees salaries are public records in the US. Many local news publications will publish a searchable list.

The salaries of private company employees are being listed here

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

#108

Post by nraynaud » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

negrit wrote: post #5

ma2rten wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks this is way better than existing sites. I did notice that searching for Google gives you 5 different entities that are all Google.

Yes I am still cleaning the data. It's all unbelievable the amount of crap you can find in the public records. I have a lot of duplicates unfortunately. Down the road, I'm planning on providing a couple of cool charts/map about trends and evolutions.

http://data.jobsintech.io/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&employer=das... good luck with the cleanup

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

#109

Post by humanrebar » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

josephmx wrote: post #65

tdees40 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.

1.1M in Pittsburg is more than 1.5M in Mountain View though, so I'd stand by the first one being worth more

Well, that really depends.

Once you pay off your house, adjusting for cost of living doesn't make as much sense, especially for areas where rent or mortgage payments makes up a huge percentage of expenses.

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

#110

Post by conanbatt » Fri, May 22, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

negrit wrote: post #102

conanbatt wrote: post #91

For all the H-1B is "cheap labor complains" the fact that this information is public is horrible. Its a very asymetric relationship with your colleagues. If this were really meant to be about transparent controls, it should be tied to the wages of the other employees. Cant believe there isnt a single comment about privacy issues regarding this here. EDIT: after scrolling a bit I did find some. Kudos to that conversat…

People who know me, worked with me, ... can find me easily in this database and checkout how much I was paid.

I would find it sensitive to literally 100ks of people to make an effort to anonymize the data. If you don't see the ethical hazard of something like this, who is making the site, who is going to? The legislators that already passed the law?