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

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post #59

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It's fairly common knowledge in Silicon Valley that Netflix salaries are insane.

Isn't that because they hire a very small amount of very experienced people?

It's also because they explicitly prefer to shift as much compensation as possible towards salary as opposed to stock, benefits, perks, etc. They released a long presentation about why they do this, I think it's somewhere on Slideshare.

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

#162

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

That's not an unreasonable total compensation level for senior engineers in the bay area. Remember that Netflix does not typically offer bonuses, stock grants, etc, and just pays people a salary. While most other big tech companies (eg, Google) have salary as 1/2 to 3/4 of your total compensation, with the remainder being bonus and stock grants (or options). So in the Google table here, you will see far lower salarie…

Isn't it better the Google way? You will be taxed less since you can keep the stock for 1+ year and get taxed at the Long Term Capital Gains rate. Being almost all salary will get you taxed to death.

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

#163

Someone at IBM: Senior Software Engineer $7,278,870,000 Philadelphia!! Probably some lucrative patent.

Much more likely just bad data (astronomically more likely)

I agree with you. I was like whaaaat..

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

#164
post #12

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Can I find the highest salaries?

Take a look at Airbnb, Data Scientist. This person has been doing >$1.000.000 a year...

what does "status: withdrawn" mean ?

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

#165
post #86

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Or get a full histogram!

Looks like salar.ly has that info: http://www.salar.ly/salaries/?title=senior+software+engineer...

unfortunately that site hasn't been updated w/ 2014 or 2015 data

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

#166
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.

This is a great tool. I hope it helps every H1-B fight for the skills they are worth.

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

#168
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.

Neat project. My brother, who is an immigration lawyer and presumably somewhere on the list, asks for a way to search by attorney.

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

#170
post #151

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1) To prevent hiring people "below 40k" you just make it so you dont pass H1B's for "below 40k". 2) International employee does not normally know something like this exists, and I assure you the Government website is not made with such a goal in mind. Not to mention that even in that case the salaries provided here have all kinds of inexact data (because it doesnt show stock compensation) 3) Any country can make the…

"Having this information public denotes a second-class citizen measure" Actually it denotes "not being a citizen at all "? It's got nothing to do with being second class. If you are here on an H1B, you're not a citizen. A google search shows: "The H1B visa classification permits a foreign national to work in the United States for a temporary period". You can debate whether the information on this site should be publi…

"I would not expect to have all the rights of a citizen if I went to work in a foreign country either."

Your expectations are accurate.

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