Im not from the USA, so I wonder what "Twitter paying $120K on average" actually means. After Taxes etc, how much of what the company pays will end up in the employees pocket to actually buy sutff?
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#12If it's based on H1B datasets, it's mostly incorrect. H1B salaries are definitely lower than what US citizens get (on average).
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#13Im not from the USA, so I wonder what "Twitter paying $120K on average" actually means. After Taxes etc, how much of what the company pays will end up in the employees pocket to actually buy sutff?
In the major urban areas (Cali, NY) about 50% (with quite a big margin - more correct would be 'between 40 and 55%), excluding health care insurance.
(I'm not in the US but I have an academic interest in comparative tax pressures, and that of the US comes up quite often).
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#14Im not from the USA, so I wonder what "Twitter paying $120K on average" actually means. After Taxes etc, how much of what the company pays will end up in the employees pocket to actually buy sutff?
In the major urban areas (Cali, NY) about 50% (with quite a big margin - more correct would be 'between 40 and 55%), excluding health care insurance. (I'm not in the US but I have an academic interest in comparative tax pressures, and that of the US comes up quite often).
Where do you think are hot spots with a good supply of tech jobs, where taxes on the individual is low and rent is not very high?
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#15If it's based on H1B datasets, it's mostly incorrect. H1B salaries are definitely lower than what US citizens get (on average).
H1B salaries are higher than what US citizens get (on average).
Show me a company than actually pays what H1B claims and I'll show you a company that has people lined up at the front door every morning wanting to get hired.
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#16H1B salaries are generally higher. Perhaps they are confusing billing rate with salary rate.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the major urban areas (Cali, NY) about 50% (with quite a big margin - more correct would be 'between 40 and 55%), excluding health care insurance. (I'm not in the US but I have an academic interest in comparative tax pressures, and that of the US comes up quite often).
Where do you think are hot spots with a good supply of tech jobs, where taxes on the individual is low and rent is not very high?
Austin, TX.
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#18The salary listed for my position at my company is 27k less than I make. I'm not sure if these numbers accurately reflect the true average salary of all employees. I find it very hard to believe that my salary is that much higher than average.
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#19If it's based on H1B datasets, it's mostly incorrect. H1B salaries are definitely lower than what US citizens get (on average).
Possibly true, though for the same position it will be the same pay. Having managed H1B employees, every year I was required to fill out a bunch of paperwork confirming that I was not underpaying them for their work relative to their peers. We were fairly rigorous about this.
That said, you're only on an H1B visa until you get your green card. By which point, you've gone through several promotions and are finally leaving the junior engineer position. I would also expect H1B numbers to be skewed lower for this reason.
If people really want to know what the salaries are at other companies, they should just make friends with their generalist. Big company HR orgs pay third parties to do more stastically rigorous surveys of salaries by position and use that to determine how "not to overpay."