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This requirement is to give opportunity to existing employees for the new position.
In a small company of about 400 people, where I worked, the job advertisements were posted in the kitchen area and it wasn't very hard to deduce what the salary of the newly joining member of your team is.
I wish they didn't disclose both the company name and the title since some companies create a title just for one person. It takes no effort to figure out who's making what, myself included -_- Open data / Gov 2.0 and that whole spiel is great but it'd be nice if privacy was given a second thought, even if it's the data of non-citizens
When you can't quit without being deported, you tend not to negotiate too hard or complain when you don't get a raise.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Take the H1-B salary and increase that by 30%-50% to get what you should be shooting for. I remember when my university applied for H1-B on my behalf back in 2001, their prevailing wage for software engineers was <$30K/annum.
No, this has nothing to do with the prevailing wage. You'll notice that each row indicates the "prevailing wage", as well as the wage that the company is actually asking to pay someone. The prevailing wage is always way lower (and a joke, basically), satisfying their obligation to pay greater than or equal to, but that is not the interesting part of this data. To be clear - this isn't a link to the LCA data (although…
I wish they didn't disclose both the company name and the title since some companies create a title just for one person. It takes no effort to figure out who's making what, myself included -_- Open data / Gov 2.0 and that whole spiel is great but it'd be nice if privacy was given a second thought, even if it's the data of non-citizens
In most states you can look up any state-employee's salary by name.
Anecdotally, I've found that there is a "visa discount". H1B workers are paid a lot less than you'd think by looking at these public numbers or the salaries paid to citizens. When you can't quit without being deported, you tend not to negotiate too hard or complain when you don't get a raise.
I don't know if that is the reason but my salary is definitely not discounted compared to my American co-workers.
Anecdotally, I've found that there is a "visa discount". H1B workers are paid a lot less than you'd think by looking at these public numbers or the salaries paid to citizens. When you can't quit without being deported, you tend not to negotiate too hard or complain when you don't get a raise.
This only applies if deportation is a threat to you. I am a H-1B employee and I have absolutely no problems going back to my home country in an instant. I don't know if that is the reason but my salary is definitely not discounted compared to my American co-workers.
For example: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Salaries-E100569.htm