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

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Post by ergothus »

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?

I worked for the State of Virginia a some years ago, and at least two years running the local paper did a FOIA request for everyone's salaries and then published anyone earning above the median in a searchable database. ( http://www.richmond.com/data-center/salaries-virginia-state-... )

Many of my coworkers were upset, but the only real practical result I saw was that some people that were underpaid relative to their peers had evidence of it, and those that were overpaid relative to their peers were held to more responsibilities by others.

On the whole my experience was positive with it. (That said, your point that we have varying levels of "justice" is completely valid).

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

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Post by forgotAgain »

oimaz wrote: post #107
forgotAgain wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Your question concerned US citizens not public / private employment.

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

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Post by cmdrfred »

oimaz wrote: post #107
forgotAgain wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This needs to be transparent like it or not. These companies are arguing that there isn't any talent for them to hire so they have to get someone from overseas. If this information wasn't publicly available they would be paying some of these guys 9 dollars an hour.

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

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Post by dogecoinbase »

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?

Well, I suppose that if the employer and employee couldn't normally work together but had entered into a special arrangement with the government dictating (among other things) that their salary be made public in exchange for being able to employ/be employed, I'd be just fine with it.

The situation is not remotely analogous.

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

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Post by stickydink »

Be aware this shows the salary as it was when the visa was applied for; which is often many months before the visa (end supposedly, the job) begins.

I found myself on here (the only H-1B at my company), and the salary is almost $20k less than what I was being paid by the time the visa stamp actually arrived, and $80k less than today (3 years in).

As frustrating as actually going through the US immigration system is, I do appreciate that they put out some good data on it.

I'm currently going through PERM (and again, frustrations, audits, and personal nightmares aside), it's great to see that I can look at all the processed applications from just 1-2 days ago - and see details on company/role. There are plenty of sites that the ugly/difficult data that govt puts out itself, and makes it a bit easier to navigate; one example I've used is dolstats.com

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

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Post by robbyking »

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?

My wife used to work at a public university and their salaries were publicly available on the university website.

You could literally search "EMPLOYEE NAME salary" on their site and find any employee's annual income.

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

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Post by nabucodonosor »

titomc wrote: post #118

The USCIS publishes this data in an excel sheet format. You can find the raw data here http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm . I made use of this data to negotiate salary and came out successful.

Or you can use https://wageoffer.com
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