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2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
- protomyth 10y ago"The salary is the average salary of all proffered salary on LCA or Form 9035. Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary." Yeah, I'm not quite buying that as a good methodology.
- jedmeyers 10y agoI agree, especially since there is no guarantee that the employees are being paid more than the lower bound.
- protomyth 10y agoIf I read it correctly, you could have 50 H1Bs at $50K and pay one at $200K, put a salary range down with it being truthful, and this survey would put the salary at $125K. I wonder if a FOIA request is possible? Says quite a lot when 8 of the top 10 are body shops (with many debates about IBM being possible these days).
- jedmeyers 10y agoFOIA request won't help since this is exactly the same data as USCIS gets from the company applying for H1B.
- makmanalp 10y agoNot sure this is true - the LCA should have the range, and that's done en masse, but the actual visa application should have the individual salary for that worker AFAIK.
- webosdude 10y agoGet your math right, 50 H1B's at 50K and 1 H1B at 200K would avg out close to 53K and not 125K.
- random42 10y agoIf the range is $50k - $200k, this survey methodology would put it at the middle -- $125k.
- protomyth 10y agoRead the disclaimer which says "Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary" In my example, the form has 50K as the bottom of the range and 200K at the top. Using this site's methodology they take the "middle point of the range" which is 125K. What your calculating is the example's actual average, not what the site would be reporting. That was the point of my post to show that the methodology likely does not match the truth and likely overestimates the salary.
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- BoppreH 10y ago> Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. With full stack trace, file name and a few lines of source code. Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.myvisajobs.com%2FReports%2F2016-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.m...
- huherto 10y ago33K for a single company ? We want to benefit from ideas from talented architects, doctors, scientists or engineers that contribute a diverse set of approaches to solve our problems. As it is now, we are only bringing IT professionals from a handful of countries. It is just a source of cheap skilled labor with little synergic value.
- samfisher83 10y agoWell google average salary is 127k. I don't think that includes rsu, bonus, etc. So I would say the salary is on par with what they are paying Americans. If you compare the H1-B to GC ratio its pretty close.
- huherto 10y agoGoogle is clearly not the problem. They have 4k H1B but they also have 60k USA employees.
- int_19h 10y agoMost large software companies are not the problem - they actually do use H1B the way it's intended, i.e. to supplement their work force when local talent is unavailable on short notice; and they offer equal pay for equal work. They also normally sponsor their H1B employees for green cards as soon as they're eligible, so we're not talking temp workers here, so much so as a skilled immigration stream. (Disclosure: I was an H1B worker before, so this is based on personal and anecdotal experience.) Places like Infosys and Tata are the problem. That's where H1B is milked for cheap labor, and where all those legal schemes to lower the salary as much as possible are heavily used. So far as I know, most workers that they hire do not get green cards, either. Problem is, the latter group is responsible for most H1B applications.
- vostok 10y agoI think Google would pay more than they do now if the H1B program did not exist or if visas were given to people with the highest salaries rather than randomly assigned.
- kitwalker12 10y agoInteresting to see University of Michigan in there. wonder what's the impetus there.
- ones_and_zeros 10y agoUniversity employed H-1Bs are exempt from the cap. It is a loop hole that is becoming more common where private companies set up partnerships with universities to employ H-1Bs on their behalf in order to skirt the cap. The company sponsors a position at the university, the employee does work for the company, the university takes a percentage.
- kitwalker12 10y agooh my. That's interesting. The jobs I see are: Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists(274); Biochemists and Biophysicists(187); Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary(100); Biological Technicians(60); Molecular And Cellular Biologists(59);
- ones_and_zeros 10y agoYup, the thing that is even MORE interesting is that these positions can be classified as more relating to research which has much lower wage requirements. So the employee may be writing software for your business but she is paid like an academic researcher. Some of them are doing it out in the open[0] [0] http://www.diyatvusa.com/2016/07/07/us-universities-use-h1b-loophole-to-retain-talented-students-who-turn-into-entrepreneurs/ http://www.diyatvusa.com/2016/07/07/us-universities-use-h1b-...
- daleco 10y agoSome companies use Universities to hire foreign Software engineer with the title of "Research Associate", lower wage, same job. Then claiming that they are recruiting the best in the world while providing a very low wage (research associate prevailing wage instead of SE). It can get worse, I have a friend that has been under a J1 for years, while he is not a student anymore. The company pays a student salary (2k/month) instead of a H1B prevailing wage.
- raverbashing 10y agoIf the objective is to pay 70kYr for a person might just as well open an office outside of the US, unless they're located in a medium or small city (ah yes, the site just blew up on me as well, probably done by an underpaid H1B from one of the abusers of the systems) Edit: I'm not against the people that want a chance to work in the US, I'm against the companies that abuse the system
- guiomie 10y ago"System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding." Looks like someone didn't cache it's data!
- nuhusky2003 10y agoOr didn't turn off development sorry page, exposing the stack trace
- raverbashing 10y ago> Looks like someone didn't cache it's data! "its data" (also it might not be a caching problem)
- koolba 10y ago1 Infosys 33,289 $79,201 2 Tata Consultancy Services 16,553 $69,648 If this is really a lottery, how the hell do they end up with this many? Is the lottery random per applicant and they just submit 100s of 1000s of applications?
- makmanalp 10y agoBasically. Plus the limits per company to be considered h-1b dependent are AFAIK are on accepted visas, not visa applications. Not that that's a deterrent - I think these companies already are, so they must be paying the fees anyway. Plus I think a big chunk of the fees get refunded when an application is not accepted. So really there is no incentive to not apply as much as you can.
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- vaishaksuresh 10y agoIt would be so much fairer if they had a limit on the number of applications a company can file. They have such a limit on the number of greencards each country gets. Let the lottery happen at the company level and not in the common pool.
- pm90 10y agoYou know, this is like a game. If you limit applications by a company, they will apply through a subsidiary managed by a private holding company whose owners are not known. More paperwork, but they will get around the system...
- vaishaksuresh 10y agoI don't think a company like Infosys will do that. They are a big company and it will be equally painful for them with all the paperwork. Smaller companies may do that, but they are not the ones taking up a chunk of the visas anyway.
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- derptron 10y agoSweet. The average H1B makes as much as I do.
- blazespin 10y agoIdeally we could set get this on a % of company employees
- mc32 10y agoIf people are concerned with imported labor undecutting or putting downward pressure on salaries, I'd suggest taxing imported labor so as to make it no cheaper than the locally produced labor pool. Then we'd get companies hiring imported labor when they actually could not find a local candidate. Tax it at the median recorded for the locale where the sponsoree is hired. Tax so that there is no cost advantage in seeking labor cost arbitrage. You could simply tax the difference. If the median is 150, and someone is hired for 100, tax is 50. If they are hired at 130, tax is 20, etc.
- andrewjl 10y agoInstead of being randomly selected, why not allocate H1-B visas to the highest paying positions first? (If there's a tie at the end then the selection can be random.)
- anarazel 10y agoSo no startup, or company in a lowcost area, can higher people from other countries anymore? Don't see how that's a good solution either.
- frugalmail 10y ago>Infosys & Tata Consultancy ....Yeah right, they're coming in with unique skills. Whatever those skills are, it's a mystery to me. Unless you count bumbling projects and adding technical debt at an astronomical rate.