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H1B Visa Salary Database
- kafkaesq 11y agoNice, but the data needs cleanup / clustering (all the variants on "NEW YORK CITY", "NEW YORK, NY" etc).
- danjoc 11y agoI wonder if a bulk data download is available. Some NLP and data analysis could produce some incredible results here.
- Yhippa 11y agoSerious question: how would one go about doing that? Any pointers?
- esailija 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage
- alexandercrohde 11y agoThis is an amazing source of salary information. This must be a great when job hunting (especially as H1B) to see what ranges companies you apply to hire at.
- danjoc 11y agoOr to compare salaries with those one works with. I just found out how much my colleague makes.
- xchaotic 11y agoIs it significantly less than you? In other words does it really justify shipping someone from across the world and going through the admin cost? I wonder if H1B worker is indeed cheaper, when is the break even point to justify the extra admin? Is it 12 months, 18 months? Is he still there after that period? If not, then obviously there's no point.
- danjoc 11y agoI was under the initial impression he made more than me, based on the amount of money he spent on house/cars/furnishings when arriving in this country. In my opinion, he should be making quite a bit less. I have significantly more skill and reputation in the field where we work. I'm also the project lead. In reality, he's only slightly lower paid than I am (<5% difference).
- CyberDildonics 11y agoI've personally used it while job hunting to help negotiating salary. In some companies/industries you can almost narrow down the title + visa to one or two people.
- obtino 11y agoIBM: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=IBM*&job=&city=&year=All http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=IBM*&job=&city=&year=All
- mathattack 11y agoInteresting after looking at prior employers. Two comments: 1 - It's only base salaries. No equity and bonus are included. 2 - People work the job titles to justify comp. (Moving up, or down) And the title for the government doesn't always match the one used by the employee or company. So it's tough to infer too much for one or two data points.
- pcher 11y agoFacebook http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Facebook http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Facebook
- anarazel 11y agoThis is actually somewhat misleading, because it's listing labor certification data; not actually granted visas. Given the H1B lottery that means it contains a lot of certifications for jobs that could never be filled.
- pcher 11y agoAt least it means an employer had tried to apply a visa for its employee. Those salary numbers still useful.
- BuckRogers 11y agoThis is amazing, from the businesses I've worked with, it's about what I expected. What I'm wondering is if these salaries are what those of us who don't need a visa should be expecting? I'm paid in line with these salaries and seems pretty bog standard. As a result, they certainly aren't getting much of a discount. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If me being paid the same as H1B visa employees is not right, I'll probably get in gear to find another place to work soon. If I am right and these are accurate for native and H1B's, then there's probably at least a 5-10K premium increase for citizens. Maybe more.
- gautamdivgi 11y agoNope... that's the law. You being paid the same as the H1B is absolutely in alignment with it. The USCIS won't grant an approval if the H1B is paid below market rate...
- pcher 11y agoBut there is a trick, they can make a senior employee(who desperately want h1b visa) accept lower pay with a junior title.
- gautamdivgi 11y agoYeah - there's folks who game the system. Have you seen it happen often though? The one thing I've had against the h1b is that its tied to the employer. If they free it from the employer then there will be much less incentive to do something like that.
- arachnids 11y agoThis is not true at all, there is a well-defined H1-B transfer process that I've used myself. Your new employer petitions USCIS for a transfer (similar to filing a new petition, but cheaper), and you can switch jobs once it's approved. The problem for people in my position is there is no legally available downtime. If you get fired, or quit so you can search for a new job, you no longer have a right to remain in the US. There is no way to fix this without entirely redefining what the visa is supposed to be for: a particular employer being unable to find local employees to fill a position.
- hyperlz 11y agoThere's also Green Card PERM Salary data available on sites like http://visadoor.com http://visadoor.com. H1B's typically have less years of experience compared to Green Card applications, even through both their titles might say Senior Software Engineer for example. If you are researching salaries, I would definitely look into PERM Salaries as well. Glassdoor groups all the salaries reported for a title over the years in one bucket. Hence, I find the PERM and Labor data very helpful because you can see how salaries have changed over years. Eg. http://visadoor.com/companies/facebook-inc http://visadoor.com/companies/facebook-inc http://visadoor.com/h1b/index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc.&year=2016&submit=Search http://visadoor.com/h1b/index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc.&year=... http://visadoor.com/greencards/index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc.&year=2016&submit=Search http://visadoor.com/greencards/index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc...
- hartem_ 11y agoThese are the lower bounds. The actual salaries can actually be higher.
- sled 11y agoAn analysis of game industry H-1B data: https://orcahq.com/blog/game-industry-salary-explorer https://orcahq.com/blog/game-industry-salary-explorer And a tool to instantly search and view salary distributions: https://orcahq.com/salaries https://orcahq.com/salaries
- arachnids 11y agoTwo things seem worth mentioning: 1. The usual suspects that petition Congress for more H1-B visas seem to be paying their employees at or above market. 2. Several Indian IT body shops are spamming the process, vastly reducing the effective slots available for the group above. Infosys, for example filed several applications for "Systems Engineers", whatever that means, in San Francisco, paying 74k$[1] Searching by title, Infosys seems to be the only company hiring people for the role, I wonder prevailing wage determination works in these cases :-) [2] [1] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=INFOSYS+LIMITED&job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&city=SAN+FRANCISCO&year=2015 http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=INFOSYS+LIMITED&job=SYSTEMS... [2] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&city=&year=2015 http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&...
- robin__j 11y agoFWIW, Systems Engineer is the designation for entry level engineers at Infosys. Since it's a service company with engineers working on all sorts of techs it doesn't really make sense calling those positions Java Dev or Web Dev or whatever.
- mathattack 11y agoOn point 1 - you have to pay at or above market or you don't get the H1B. So part of the game that companies play is defining the role properly to overpay the title but underpay the experience you are getting. (And defining the job description in a way that is tough to find locally) There was a time on Wall Street that you could identify the false postings based on where the resumes were to be sent.
- yalogin 11y agoThere are no rules or regulations to issuing a labor clearance for a h1. I know many cases where the companies used the lowest possible salary and it job description that has nothing to do with the actual job itself. But the labor office has no way to know that and enforce. I don't know how that can be fixed.
- Zigurd 11y agoHere's how: Auction the visas with a high reserve. That way the R&D slots that pay above market get nicked for a bit extra, that the employers will find a little inconvenient but nothing compared to the product not getting done. But for an outsourcing shop that wants a seatwarmer at the lowest price possible, a competitive aution is 90% unsupportable. They won't be able to tolerate negative margins for a year or two.
- smilekzs 11y agoHow I wish I had this information during my job hunt! Knowing what the employer (who picked you for interview) plans to pay you up front is an important bargaining advantage.
- BuckRogers 11y agoI keep coming back to this site. I'm seriously going to use this in a salary negotiation if someone ever tries to lowball me again.