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Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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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

You are utterly and completely incorrect. $30,000 a month is a fantastic salary. No ifs, ands or buts.

Yes, considering that is the equivalent of a minimum wage yearly salary every two weeks.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Weird seeing yourself listed on a site like this! I imagine my co-workers could find me if they were so motivated. (this isn't a criticism of the site - just an interesting side effect of this kind of data transparency)

Yeah, it was odd to see myself listed in there, too.

Although, at the moment, anyone who's interested enough to look at the H1B notice posted discretely on the wall of the kitchen at my office will see my salary, since it's my visa being transferred to our new parent company.

It was a strange feeling seeing the job details and the salary listed on the communal kitchen wall, and realising it was my job and my salary.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Check out Wal Mart during year 2002. Either there is some interesting story or the data has a problem. Average salary goes up by about 50 times before dropping back down by about as much the next year. Edit: Being there are so many Wal Marts, I mean this one. http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/wal-mart-associates-inc

Where? http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/walmart-com

Don't see 2002

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

#37
Nicely made. It would be helpful to view the information grouped by job title, with summary statistics on salary across all employers, possibly also with standardized numbers that include adjustments for differences in regional cost of living for the various worksite locations (via either BLS numbers or whatever wolfram alpha uses to get equivalent salaries for other cities).

It's also a little depressing to see salaries this high (I'm at a non-profit).

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Great implementation. I've seen the raw data before but never had the web development skills to execute on this idea. Can you also add a query where once you select a company and year, it groups by title and gives average salary.

For a company and a given year, you can search by title.

It would be useful to search across companies for a job title

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.

I understand that highly compensated engineers get to solve unique challenges on grand scale, enjoy their jobs and are generally content with their professional positions. But I just can't stop wishing for those engineers using their immense knowledge, authority and financial resources to bootstrap own tech companies and improve the diversity of the tech ecosystem. They don't need venture backing, they don't have pre…

If youre well paid to solve exactly the kind of problems youre interested in working on, its easy to see why some would prefer working at Google / Facebook. Most technical people I know who have left to start their own business have shared that they now spend most of their time building the organization rather than creating technology. Some appear to enjoy this organizational hacking, while others have a tinge of regret about it.
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