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Adding some data. Draw your own conclusions about wage suppression Googles AI search "As of January 2025, the median H-1B salary in the United States was $141,
by throwaway7783 2y ago
Adding some data. Draw your own conclusions about wage suppression
Googles AI search
"As of January 2025, the median H-1B salary in the United States was $141,000 per year, or $11,750 per month. The average salary was $167,533 per year, or $13,961 per month."
https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/visa-usa-inc-op0lw9gmkl/salaries/2024 https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/visa-usa-inc-op0lw9gmkl/s...
This is excluding government costs of sponsoring the visa for the employee AND their family.
I am not supporting US companies by any means - they are as greedy as one can get.
- scoofy 2y agoNot to be pedantic, but this is exactly the scenario when you want to use the median or mode, not the average. Incomes are power law distributed, so one H1B or non-H1B borderline executive could be throwing off the average non-trivially.
- throwaway7783 2y agoYes, my comment has the median number, and the link has various percentiles. Averages don't work well in such scenarios.