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Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by mindvirus »

zwaps wrote: post #20

Interesting low-ish means for Software Engineers for the FAANGs. Weren't they all supposed to earn 250k minimum or something?

A big chunk of FAANG compensation is stock, which isn't part of the H1b filing. Cross reference those salaries with levels.fyi to get a better picture.

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Post by euiq »

flakeoil wrote: post #10
herr_antwort wrote: post #7

ok, citadel, totally believable salaries here. is this a typo? theres a zero missing. Quantitative Research Lead CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS SERVICES LLC US$55058.00 US$55058.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas Services LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1

It's just one position, not an average. There are other positions with the same title with higher salaries. Quantitative Research can be anything, basically just an Excel inputer could be called that. I think salary expectations on HN, in tech and in the US are a bit off. Do you really believe someone crunching numbers is worth USD 600000 per year?

Quantitative Research as Citadel Securities is a set of specific, highly-paid, jobs.

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Post by nkrisc »

throwaway2990 wrote: post #14
misiax wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not useless to me. While more preprocessing would be welcome you can easily distinguish annual, daily, hourly compensation yourself.

No you can’t. A day wage can be hourly for some. The table shows a mix of values that are meaningless.

What values could reasonably be both an annual salary and an hourly wage in the US, where this data is from? While of course mixing annual and hourly is bad practice and makes sorting pretty useless, it shouldn’t be difficult to distinguish the two if one is so inclined. I imagine there’s a very clear gap in that sorted sequence where the hourly values transition to annual. Take 20,000. As an annual salary you’d be living in poverty, and as an “hourly wage” you’d be making over $40,000,000 annually. No one making that much is actually paid an hourly wage of $20,000.

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Post by mindvirus »

euiq wrote: post #22

Some numbers (like $157,477.00) are very frequent; what's up with that? Is that a specific threshold that holds legal significance?

Neat observation! My guess is that that is the prevailing wage required for H1b: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages

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Post by repeekad »

midasuni wrote: post #17
repeekad wrote: post #6

Glad to not see an auth wall, sites like this have been used in the past to collect and sell email addresses.

Random@throwaway.com can’t be that valuable surely?

Definitely, 10 minute mail is great for this, or if you actually want to keep the login you can use “masked email” through fastmail and 1password which I recommend.

That being said, most people don’t use the internet this way, and websites like OP have been used maliciously as lures to collect targeted data, such as an email list of people interested in H1Bs..

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Post by freebee56 »

flakeoil wrote: post #10
herr_antwort wrote: post #7

ok, citadel, totally believable salaries here. is this a typo? theres a zero missing. Quantitative Research Lead CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS SERVICES LLC US$55058.00 US$55058.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas Services LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1

It's just one position, not an average. There are other positions with the same title with higher salaries. Quantitative Research can be anything, basically just an Excel inputer could be called that. I think salary expectations on HN, in tech and in the US are a bit off. Do you really believe someone crunching numbers is worth USD 600000 per year?

There is a huge hype machine on the internet where people want to believe there there are crazy high salaries in other companies. Even though they don't know anyone who works there, interviewed or otherwise even bothered to look into some actual evedence. I have had interviews with citadel and know people whose have roles with that title. Total comp is slightly below what a comparable person would make at Google or Facebook. There are a few rainmakers there but those people get everything in (cash) bonus. Many are getting a base that was set 5-10 years ago.
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