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Searchable and sortable H1B salary database
- repeekad 3y agoGlad to not see an auth wall, sites like this have been used in the past to collect and sell email addresses.
- midasuni 3y agoRandom@throwaway.com can’t be that valuable surely?
- repeekad 3y agoDefinitely, 10 minute mail is great for this, or if you actually want to keep the login you can use “masked email” through fastmail and 1password which I recommend. That being said, most people don’t use the internet this way, and websites like OP have been used maliciously as lures to collect targeted data, such as an email list of people interested in H1Bs..
- moneywoes 3y agoAny examples? If you’re collecting data don’t you need an email to avoid duplicate submissions
- throwaway2990 3y agoThis seems useless. Sorting has 360k down to $7. Either make it hourly wage or yearly salary. Both in 1 is confusing.
- misiax 3y agoNot useless to me. While more preprocessing would be welcome you can easily distinguish annual, daily, hourly compensation yourself.
- throwaway2990 3y agoNo you can’t. A day wage can be hourly for some. The table shows a mix of values that are meaningless.
- motoxpro 3y agoThen you can just look at the annual ones. Anything over 75k is more than safe to say is annual. I only go that high because it seems like you need certainty that it is not quarterly or bi-annual.
- nkrisc 3y agoWhat values could reasonably be both an annual salary and an hourly wage in the US, where this data is from? While of course mixing annual and hourly is bad practice and makes sorting pretty useless, it shouldn’t be difficult to distinguish the two if one is so inclined. I imagine there’s a very clear gap in that sorted sequence where the hourly values transition to annual. Take 20,000. As an annual salary you’d be living in poverty, and as an “hourly wage” you’d be making over $40,000,000 annually. No one making that much is actually paid an hourly wage of $20,000.
- throwaway2990 3y agoIf I sort. Atleast on mobile. How do I figure out the lowest annual salary? I can’t. I don’t understand how anyone can defend this data. Either collect and provide good data or don’t bother at all.
- nkrisc 3y agoI’m not defending the data. I’m pointing out that it could be processed without much difficulty to clean it up, if so desired.
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- hayst4ck 3y agoThis is another site that promises the same info: https://h1bdata.info/ https://h1bdata.info/
- euiq 3y agoAt a glance, the numbers on the site you linked to look much more believable.
- epicureanideal 3y agoThis seems to show about 86,000 records total, but aren't there about that many H1B opportunities available each year? Are the salaries not reported again each year, just in the year of the hire? Is there a way to get the unique set of all H1B salaries currently employed in the US?
- laurencerowe 3y agoThese data just reflect the statutory labor certifications filed as part of the H1B process. Like with the PERM filings for green cards they tend to understate compensation in tech since they only include basic salary and not stock bases compensation which is normally half of your total comp as a senior.
- herr_antwort 3y agook, citadel, totally believable salaries here. is this a typo? theres a zero missing. Quantitative Research Lead CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS SERVICES LLC US$55058.00 US$55058.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas Services LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1
- achow 3y agoYeah weird PRODUCT MANAGEMENT VP | META PLATFORMS, INC. | $248768.00
- hackernewds 3y agoBase, without equity
- fnfjfk 3y agoThat's still low, that's an E7/M2 salary, VP is at least three levels higher (D1, D2, VP1).
- boeingUH60 3y agoThis stat likely includes just base salary and not stock compensation.
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- zwaps 3y agoInteresting low-ish means for Software Engineers for the FAANGs. Weren't they all supposed to earn 250k minimum or something?
- mindvirus 3y agoA big chunk of FAANG compensation is stock, which isn't part of the H1b filing. Cross reference those salaries with levels.fyi to get a better picture.
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- euiq 3y agoSome numbers (like $157,477.00) are very frequent; what's up with that? Is that a specific threshold that holds legal significance?
- mindvirus 3y agoNeat observation! My guess is that that is the prevailing wage required for H1b: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoI think we're seeing the wrong columns; prevailing wage is an immigration law term that speaks to the average wage paid for similar work in similar occupations in the same area. That's why we see so many repeated values. These aren't the actual salaries.
- refurb 3y agoGood catch. There are two sets of numbers. Prevailing wage is data from BLS that sets a floor for H1B wages. Companies often pay much more.
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- tananaev 3y agoFor senior engineers you need to at least double the number to get an idea of the actual total compensation.
- nepalvibes 3y agoI created a site similar to this few weeks ago https://h1binfo.org/ https://h1binfo.org/ It has 5M+ records containing H1B salary data from 2014 - 2023 and uses Meilisearch.
- jagatp 3y agoSearch is very fast and also found my employer name on the list. easy to use as well.
- pjot 3y agoMy employers data seems to be accurate. Great work, fast search too. For the uninformed - what is the point of these sites? Do they serve as proxy for a more general wage database? I’m guessing there’s some disclosure law for h1b
- emodendroket 3y ago> Do they serve as proxy for a more general wage database? I’m guessing there’s some disclosure law for h1b That’s the idea. At least in theory, H1B salaries are meant to be in line with what native workers are paid.
- dcreater 3y agoI'm seeing salaries of $17M/year ..
- nepalvibes 3y agohttps://h1binfo.org/visa/464448 https://h1binfo.org/visa/464448 Looks like the application was "Withdrawn". Most probably a typo when filing? Most of these high salaries $1M+ are either "Withdrawn" or "Denied". But there are other applications "Certified" at around $1M/Year. https://h1binfo.org/visa/469433 https://h1binfo.org/visa/469433
- samspenc 3y agoHey your website looks great, I started looking around and unfortunately hit a HTTP 500 within 2 clicks :( For e.g. https://h1binfo.org/jobs/Assistant%20Professor/2023 https://h1binfo.org/jobs/Assistant%20Professor/2023 shows a SQL query error. Btw, very cool to see a 2023 website powered by PHP Symfony :) it's been a LONG time since I worked with PHP frameworks but good to see them still in use in newer sites.
- roschdal 3y ago[flagged]
- eric-hu 3y ago> Linux Kernel Software Engineer BYTEDANCE INC. What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?
- thebigwinning 3y agoSpeculation - power and performance tweaking - drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?) - security analysis - integration of software with Linux
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoThis doesn't answer the parent commenter's question. There is no scenario that any of these would be needed for a social media app.
- DerSaidin 3y agoFor the app, no. Server side, at a big enough scale, it might make sense for optimization, tuning, measuring, resolving weird bugs, etc.
- thebigwinning 3y agoThe technical beast is the internet infrastructure. The phone client is nothing.
- diebeforei485 3y agoSame reason Twitter and Meta have kernel engineers - for their backend.
- eating555 3y agoBYTEDANCE submitted a patch few months ago to reduce the system reboot time for a few milliseconds. That means a lot for rebooting their hundreds of thousands of VMs.
- firefoxd 3y agoWould be nice to format the numbers. Adding commas to separate the thousands makes it much more readable.