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So I know a guy at Microsoft on h1b who makes ~100k, is that underpaid or what?

• anonH1B 14y ago
  This doesn't look much, but that's from my perspective of a senior professional with a family and living in the greater NY region. Redmond may be cheaper, and surely for someone who is young, lives alone and doesn't yet have an exceptional resume, $100k is a ton of cash. BTW, we should all be happy to work in a profession where $100k can be even argued as "underpaid", remarkably in these difficult times... only 6.6% of individual Americans make that much (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...). And most of these have jobs that ain't any fun, such as lawyers or doctors. ;-) Also you have to consider other items from his compensation. For one thing, it's well known that Microsoft's health benefit is awesome (they are self-insured so it's zero cost for employers IIRC), this alone can be worth >15K/year. And I guess he'll have 401(k) matching, some bonus, possibly a stock grant, maybe other perks like free food etc. You put all this together and this guy is certainly making better than $150k/year, possibly more.