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Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by sp_ »

johnward wrote: post #19

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.

You can find the data on http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/quarterlydata.cfm and the data for previous years at http://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by winslow »

sp_ wrote: post #20
kelukelugames wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can't heroku do that automatically and scale to meet demand? I thought that was one of the selling points of "the cloud"?

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by psuter »

johnward wrote: post #19

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.

If you enjoy 70M+ Excel files: http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/docs/py2014q3/H-1B_FY...

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by sp_ »

winslow wrote: post #23
sp_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can't heroku do that automatically and scale to meet demand? I thought that was one of the selling points of "the cloud"?

Possibly, but not on the free tier. Anyway, our current plan can only handle 20 concurrent connections to Postgres and I am not planning to pay more to satisfy spikes.

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by perishabledave »

winslow wrote: post #23
sp_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can't heroku do that automatically and scale to meet demand? I thought that was one of the selling points of "the cloud"?

Heroku doesn't automatically scale it for you, though you have the ability to increase the number of dynos. There are services that will do that for you, but it's probably better that you have to explicitly scale so you don't get hit with a sizable bill you weren't expecting.

In any case, there are other constraints than just the amount of webservers that could be causing the outage e.g. the database.

Re: Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

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Post by syntern »

johnward wrote: post #17
s_m wrote: post #12

i also like http://h1bwage.com/ for this purpose

Is that data also pulled from the DOL? If it is accurate then my employer seems to be a liar.

I'm not sure about the data source, but my query on my situation seems to be accurate (base salary was roughly matching).
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