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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 drewg123 »

toephu2 wrote: post #162
drewg123 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My Google stock comes as RSUs (well, they call them "GSUs"), and it is taxed as if it were income as it vests.

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

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Post by motti_s »

bradleyjg wrote: post #168
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.

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

Try this: http://data.jobsintech.io/lawyers/ name>--- Example: http://data.jobsintech.io/lawyers/maranci-daniel-boston-ma

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

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Post by ryanobjc »

michaelochurch wrote: post #143
ryanobjc wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the problem is even though it sounds like a lot, $1.5m/year is not really some kind of "Tony Stark"-like riches. Yes, they might be able to temporarily stop working and live off savings, but probably not for that long. And furthermore, $1.5m, which is really $750k after taxes, doesnt really pay a lot of salaries. Hard to have an engineering division on $750k. Also, I know plenty of people who are doing exactl…

The VC game picks winners in both senses - that they fund 'winners' and that they create winners by their own influence. It's about 5% the first and 95% the second, sadly. The well-connected VCs pretty much know what the outcomes and the valuations are going to be in advance. The less connected ones get burned by adverse selection and lose money. So a bootstrapped startup cannot ignore the VC realm regardless, especi…

not sure why you've been downboated, perhaps people disagree on the numbers, but the basic fact is, in my opinion, not disputable.

VCs dont just pick winners, they CREATE winners. How much of an effect this is debatable but it certainly is not a small effect.

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

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Post by emu »

tdees40 wrote: post #32

I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.

This data doesn't include non-salary compensation (e.g., stock grants). For tech companies, that can be substantial.

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

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Post by unethical_ban »

S4M wrote: post #167
acidflask wrote: post #148

Darnit, I missed out on the $43,264,000 postdoc at MIT in 2008. http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/massachusetts-institute-...

Such a salary in academia is really incredible. No way this is not just a typo?

Definitely a typo. A programmer at my company doesn't make 7,600,000.

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

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Post by beamatronic »

zerr wrote: post #158
chrisper wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Or maybe because of their high turnover, to compensate the risk of what is known as "the culture of fear" there.

For $300k+ I'll take on some risk.

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

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Post by ryanobjc »

toephu2 wrote: post #162
drewg123 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

not so because options and RSUs mean that until the vest you don't get ownership of the stock. So if you keep it for an ADDITIONAL year then you get taxed long term on the _additional gain_.

Basically options and RSU = normal income

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

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Post by [deleted] »

brentoids wrote: post #159
stickydink wrote: post #116

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,…

Is it a good indicator of what the company pays entry level positions if the company mostly hires for one specific job. So would you use the Google, Microsoft, etc data as a good indicator of the average start salary of an entry level dev today?

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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 lobster_johnson »

brentoids wrote: post #159
stickydink wrote: post #116

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,…

Is it a good indicator of what the company pays entry level positions if the company mostly hires for one specific job. So would you use the Google, Microsoft, etc data as a good indicator of the average start salary of an entry level dev today?

H-1B salaries are actually "pegged" according to the title of each position; they call this the minimum or prevailing wage, and it's specific to an area.

For example, if a company is hiring a "senior software developer" in NYC, and the US government considers $120k to be the prevailing salary of a senior software developer in NYC, then the company must pay that person at least that much; Google can't pay any less, even if it wanted to. The wage database is public [1].

So that gives you the minimum, at least.

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx

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