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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 cmdrfred »

conanbatt wrote: post #123
cmdrfred wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is senseless, you dont need citizen control to check that the salaries are prevailing wages, that is a job that can be done by the government with multiple different agencies at a very low level of cost or risk. Also, it doesnt make sense because it doesnt include US employees salary of the same companies which is what you need to make that fair/unfair comparison. Even worse, the immigrants themselves can't make…

You obviously don't know anything about the US government. Without transparency there is corruption. Why do you think everyone is upset over the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal being done in secret? The US government can not be trusted.

The most recent example of this: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/pentagon-was...

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

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Post by stefap2 »

whoiskevin wrote: post #8
_dark_matter_ wrote: post #6

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Oh my god, $350k for a senior software engineer? I'm absolutely floored.

Really not that much when you take out the taxes, food and housing premium of the area. That is what should floor you as well

    Monthly Gross Pay $29,166.67
    Federal Withholding $8,195.61
    Social Security $1,808.33
    Medicare $422.92
    California $2,831.70
    SDI $262.50



    Net Monthly Pay $15,645.61

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

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Post by rMBP »

mattdotc wrote: post #99
rMBP wrote: post #93

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The asc/desc triangles bugs me too. Arrows would indicate order (⬆︎ = rising, lowest to highest). Triangles aren't arrows and should IMO be the reversed, like a pyramid (▲ = ascending, smallest on top). I just noticed HN uses triangles as arrows for upvotes, whereas Reddit has the arrows.

Good to know I'm not alone in this reasoning. I've seen the flip-flopped behavior on other sites, and it is a pet peeve of mine.

Websites are one thing. It really gets annoying when different applications in an operating system "can't agree" on what to use. I've seen both in Debian/Gnome apps, but that's kind of to be expected from (F)OSS software as rules for UI are less strict/not very well defined.

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

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Post by kmf »

efuquen wrote: post #62
tdees40 wrote: post #21

There's a software engineer at Google making $1.1M. That is all.

There is a "Data Scientist" at AirBnb with a salary of $1.35M.

Most of the other Data Scientists are making ~$135k, maybe just a typo or parsing error resulting in an extra zero?

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

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Post by beachstartup »

vdaniuk wrote: post #71
floppydisk wrote: post #44

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Pushing back a little bit, not everyone is cut out for the startup lifestyle and the problems they're solving may not be solvable without the scale of a place like Google. Rather than encourage them to get out, I'd love to see them publish more about what they're doing, what challenges they're tackling, and how they've gone about solving them. That information gets pushed into the general ecosystem and other people t…

>everyone is cut out for the startup lifestyle I would not wish startup lifestyle on anyone and I don't advocate for that. I may have been unclear, but the engineers in question are exactly the kind of people who don't need to take outside investments and are able to bootstrap (as in use their own funds and rely on immediate/eventual cashflow). They would have the independence, resources and authority to create self-…

> but the engineers in question are exactly the kind of people who don't need to take outside investments and are able to bootstrap (as in use their own funds and rely on immediate/eventual cashflow).

no, they're exactly the kind of person who wouldn't do a startup. you're thinking about this from the wrong end. risk averse people are generally the ones who make $1M/year at salaried jobs, exceptions like financial traders notwithstanding.

quite frankly if i could make $1M/year working for a megacorp i wouldn't have started my own company. these two things are mutually exclusive for me. why would i bust my ass if i could take 2-week vacations whenever i wanted and get paid $1M/year due to my elite skills?

in many respects, i started a company because i wasn't good enough to really 'make it' as an industry leading developer. i capped myself out as a consultant at about 150k/year. but i wanted more money.

many of my associates who also own businesses (tech or otherwise) also started because they were basically unemployable due to a variety of factors. issues with authority, massive egos, chip on their shoulder due to a previous fuck-over or failure, inability to kiss ass, did terribly in school, have a felony conviction from their misspent youth, etc.

these kinds of things aren't talked about in mainstream media but if you dig deep into an entrepreneur's past, you'll find this stuff a lot. normal, employable, salary-seeking people generally do not start companies of any kind.

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

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Post by bankim »

Nicely done. This is useful to gauge salary levels in your current company and also what companies in similar domain are paying in the area.

There is another website http://dolstats.com/ that gathers data from PERM applications. I've found it useful for comparing salaries when looking for new job.

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

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Post by pshin45 »

negrit wrote: post #2

Hello everyone. I quickly built this little tool based on public records provided by the government. The amount of information they provide is incredible. There are no explicit names, but for small startup or exec position it is easy to guess who is who. As far as I know this is the biggest LCA database so far.

Very impressive. I'm organizing an Immigration-themed "Startup Weekend" event[1] happening next week (in SF), and I think I'll be sharing this with participants there as an example of what can be done.

[1] http://www.up.co/communities/usa/san-francisco/startup-weeke... (Use promo code "hn" for 70% off)

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