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I agree, especially since there is no guarantee that the employees are being paid more than the lower bound.
by jedmeyers 10y ago
I 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.