Although there are companies that import warm bodies for cheap, there're many companies that hire immigrants for the same salary and perks as locals. The proble

Although there are companies that import warm bodies for cheap, there're many companies that hire immigrants for the same salary and perks as locals. The problem with these conversations is that we all come with anecdata. From what I can see, for San Francisco, the brunt of H1Bs (which is not the totality of foreign nationals, doesn't include L1s and T1s) in San Francisco in 2016 earned a salary in the 100K-150K range[1] (without accounting for extra perks like food, health and stock grants). Is that low? High? I don't know, but it seems in line with what I would have expected. Keep in mind that that's the salary, you have to add the cost of actually bringing that person to the US (lawyers, relocation, temp housing, etc.). As for the BMW, you can get a 10 year old one for that price[2]. [1]: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=Software+Engineer&city=San+Francisco&year=2016 http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=Software+Engineer&city... [2]: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/sss?sort=pricedsc&max_price=10000&query=bmw https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/sss?sort=pricedsc&ma...