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Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by untog »

MaxwellM wrote: post #5

Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers. Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show tha…

As an H1B employee, I can assure you that the amount on my LCA was the same as I was paid. That said, it is important that people understand what these figures are - they are not actual technically salaries.

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by pslam »

MaxwellM wrote: post #5

Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers. Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show tha…

Do you have a basis in fact for any of this?

I, like the other replies here, had the exact salary which my H1B Visa application represented to the DoL. It is illegal to misrepresent this, so in order for the prevailing wage to be misrepresented by 10%, the vast majority of H1B Visas would need to be illegally submitted.

Edit: The application also includes a representative sample (or exact numbers of the last few employees) of others who were hired into a similar position. This includes non-H1B employees.

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by [deleted] »

kelukelugames wrote: post #2

I love these things. Transparency in salary information gives the employees more power. I know the site is down at the moment but it's worth it to bookmark and come back later. Make sure you set the search fields to 2013 or 2012 to 2013 to remove stale salaries. You don't want to negotiate using data from 2009. ;) Here is comparing google to microsoft to amazon in Seattle. The gaps are pretty wide even for college hi…

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Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by jsnk »

MaxwellM wrote: post #5

Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers. Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show tha…

Not sure which firms you worked with, but from my experience, all the numbers I've seen are accurate down to the last dollar digit.

There's simply no incentive for any party involved to misrepresent the figure. Why would companies, foreign employees or lawyers ever change the number when they have nothing to gain but expose themselves to incredible risk by doing so?

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by curiousDog »

MaxwellM wrote: post #5

Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers. Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show tha…

Again, you're conflating body-shopping/consuling/outsourcing companies with Google/microsof et al. None of the latter pull shit like that.

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by johnward »

Can anyone post a link to the original data source? I'd like to verify this is in fact DOL data. It's much easier to go to an employer with data from an official government source than it is from some site, even if that site claims it got it's data from the source.

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by sp_ »

kelukelugames wrote: post #4
kassner wrote: post #3

Server Error (500) in any search

https://twitter.com/roguelynn/status/507231579752902656 They are fixing it!

Thank you for the note. Whenever salar.ly is linked from somewhere popular I have to spin up more Heroku instances.
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