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>> the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees. They look at as trying to find qualifi
by isalmon 14y ago
>> the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees. They look at as trying to find qualified employees anywhere, world wide.
My experience is very different. I was on H-1b for 4 years before getting my green card and EACH of my 3 employers (including big Finnish cell phone company) paid me MUCH lower than my market salary. Each time they told me that they had additional costs of:
1. Filing for my H-1b
2. Filing for my green card.
Almost everyone I know who's on H-1b is dreaming about getting their GC. Pretty much the only legal way to get it is through your current employer. Employers know about that and leverage when it comes to salary negotiations. The result - H-1b's get paid MUCH less than people with US passport or GC.
- akiselev 14y agoIn my family's experience, we have had both situations. The H1-B can become a massive expense, especially if the State Department get's more involved in the process (sometimes called a "security check") and many tiems, the entire H1-B to GC process can cost in excess of $30-40k (The management overhead/legal fees are huge, well above the $3k filing fees), especially after you factor in risk of turn over to the employer. Between my parents and all of our friends (Russian born engineers mostly), we don't know of more than one or two cases out of dozens where someone was paid more than 10% below market wage