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A Tool For Analyzing H-1B Visa Applications Reveals Tech Salary Secrets
Tekla Perry writes: The golden age of engineers is not over,' says a French software engineer who developed a tool for mining U.S. Department of Labor visa application data, but, he says, salaries appear to be leveling off. Indeed, salary inflation for software engineers and other technical professionals at Google and Facebook has slowed dramatically, according to his database, and Airbnb and Dropbox pay is down a little, though Netflix pay is through the roof. The data also shows that some large companies appear to be playing games with titles to deflate salaries, and Microsoft is finally offering technology professionals comparable salaries to Apple and Google. There's a lot more to be discovered in this interactive database, and researchers are getting ready to mine it.
no one ever said 'min wage' for h1b.
but its minimum in RELATIVE terms because there's no reason to have to pay local salary rates if you don't have to.
maybe its only 10k less or 5k less but if the workforce is over 50% indian (bay area: its more like 80% or more; wish I was kidding) and a huge percent of those are h1b's, then it adds up.
there are pay windows or ranges and every h1b salary is on the low end of the range. because, "they can" and they do get away with it.
the indentured servant is 100% true; once you are onboard, you are abused, overworked and treated like shit. they know that you are stuck there. they brought you in FOR that reason, mostly.
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I know something about H-1B wages. Follow this federal prevailing wage link (http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx) and you'll see that they are geographically-specific, and every H-1B wage comes in 4 levels, from entry-level to highly skilled. H-1B employers have to pay at least as much as shown in this federal prevailing wage database and possibly more, if they ordinarily pay people with the same duties in the same location higher than the minimums shown at the above link. BTW, that website can be useful when negotiating your own salary.
If they offer a salary too low for you, then don't take the job.
Funny how that (different AC) got modded down to -1 for not fitting the groupthink here. People seem think supply and demand should apply to other people, but not to them.
Nobody owes you a job. If you don't like the salary being offered, then nobody is forcing you to take it. Move on. But software is a global industry. The work can generally be done anywhere,, by anyone. It isn't anyone else's responsibility to ensure that your business model is as profitable as you want it to be.
Like it or not, programming can be done anywhere. That puts you into competition with the whole world, whether you want to be or not. Very few software jobs can't be shipped to China or India if that makes more economic sense.
You aren't special, and it isn't anyone else's job to ensure that your business model succeeds. That's usually the slashdot groupthink when it applies to OTHER industries like truckers being put out of jobs by automation. "If their business model isn't working, find a new one" - repeated endlessly on here. Well, guess what, you can't have it both ways. If your job can be done cheaper or automated away, it will be. If your business model isn't working, find a new one.