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?
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Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
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Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#192Hello 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.
Instead of plotting a count per exact salary could you plot count per binned salary? Ie instead of plotting 1 at 105k and 1 at 107k plot 2 at 100-110k.
As it is the plots aren't particularly useful for comparing the distribution of salaries between companies etc.
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh my god, $350k for a senior software engineer? I'm absolutely floored.
Really not that much when you take out the taxes, food and housing premium of the area. That is what should floor you as well
It is still pretty good. If you figure the housing premium between the Bay Area & a "normal" city is $1.5M vs $300K for roughly the same "middle class" house, then the monthly mortgage difference is about $5500, or about $66K/year.
So that $350K is equivalent to $284K in a "normal" place. Even being really conservative, and figuring extra costs (private school tuition, because even that $1.5M might not be enough to get you good schools, extra CA taxes, higher insurance rates, etc), we're still at an equivalent of about $250K. And that's a lot better than most people could get in any "normal" metro area as a Software Engineer.
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#194Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really not that much when you take out the taxes, food and housing premium of the area. That is what should floor you as well
Monthly Gross Pay $29,166.67 Federal Withholding $8,195.61 Social Security $1,808.33 Medicare $422.92 California $2,831.70 SDI $262.50 Net Monthly Pay $15,645.61
5k can get you a nice place in SV (maybe even less)
Even if you have kids you can probably save something like 5k/month, which is good.
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#196How is it, that in the US people earn between 20k and 200k this easily? It's just insane...
The cost of living is extremely high in many of the places where people earn these wages.
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#197Be 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,…
Income can be skewed, but also note that employers will often under-report the level of the position that the applicant is working.
This is part of the strategy to get through application approval, since one of the criteria for approval is whether or not the person is making more than the average salary for citizens working the same SOC job in the region.
You can read more about SOC and see the raw data (disclosure data) that was used in this tool here:
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#198You need to dedupe the companies better. I just searched for "LinkedIn", and found several matches:
1 linkedin, ltd.
2 linkedin, inc.
3 linkedin, corp.
4 linkedin ltd, inc.
5 linkedin corporationRe: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, ev…
Technically correct, but as we all know, the title of a job doesn't necessarily correspond to the job responsibilities. Scope creep is just as real for employee positions as it is for company projects/products.
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, ev…
Technically correct, but as we all know, the title of a job doesn't necessarily correspond to the job responsibilities. Scope creep is just as real for employee positions as it is for company projects/products.
True. I don't know how much the US government scrutinizes applications (which have to include a description of the position, responsibilities, etc.) and applicants. Perhaps not at all.