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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 bayesianhorse »

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.

Given the high salaries of tech employees and the low unemployment among them, I think that "cheap labor" isn't exactly what I would call the H-1B system.

It is a bit exploitative of the immigrants, by which I meant that the companies use the strict/stupid US immigration system as leverage. But citizens or taxpayers in the US have no reason of complaining. Maybe these H-1Bs are preventing an entirely cut-throat competition for talent, but on overall, those people add to the economy, and in a big way. Anyone who earns like 100K a year creates numerous other jobs and pays a lot of taxes...

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

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Post by ajays »

lukasm wrote: post #12
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.

Can I find the highest salaries?

Netflix? Senior Software Engineer, $375K.

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

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Post by geebee »

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?

Actually, I worked for a the UC system where all salaries were made public in an easily searchable database. The sky didn't fall.

My only real problem with it is that I feel it puts the UC system at an unfair disadvantage. Imagine if you could look up salaries for your competitor's workers, but they couldn't look up yours? This is essentially the situation for UC relative to a lot of private universities, even though massive amounts of government funding flow into private universities (with a tax exemption on endowment growth, too).

I actually think that all companies that make use government subsidies program should be required to disclose employee salaries the same way that state government do. And I absolutely do think that the H1B program should count as a government subsidy (Milton Friedman recognized it as a subsidy, because it was changing the rules for only a certain segment of the economy).

Overall, I actually think it would be beneficial to publish all salaries, and I really don't think it would cause the kind of problems people worry about. It would also real even the playing field between employers and employees.

Think about it this way - all real estate transactions are made public. But imagine if you were bidding on a house, but only the real estate agents actually knew what every house in your neighborhood had sold for. You were forced to go by little bits of gossip here and there. You'd be at a terrible disadvantage!

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

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Post by forgotAgain »

LLWM wrote: post #187
forgotAgain wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure, No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.

So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.

The IRS records of foreign workers aren't published either.

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

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Post by forgotAgain »

LLWM wrote: post #187
forgotAgain wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure, No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.

So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.

The IRS records of foreign workers aren't published either.

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

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Post by LLWM »

forgotAgain wrote: post #204
LLWM wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.

The IRS records of foreign workers aren't published either.

Their salaries are. That's the whole point of this submission.

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

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Post by paxtonab »

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.

can you add functionality to search by job title other than as a filter? great tool though!

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

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Post by mathattack »

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…

This information is all publicly available already. Nothing new other than the interface.
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