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The salaries people receive with H1-B on those companies are $60k to $70k/Year. And they are billed at $100k/year to the client. I would say the pay is same as

The salaries people receive with H1-B on those companies are $60k to $70k/Year. And they are billed at $100k/year to the client. I would say the pay is same as Americans working along with them. The reason many companies are off-shoring to India is that there are more people with mix of domain and technical knowledge in India.

pawelwentpawel 14y ago
Top 10 users of H-1B visas last year were all offshore outsourcing firms such as Tata and Infosys. Together these firms hired nearly half of all H-1B workers, and less than 3 percent of them applied to become permanent residents. I'm a little bit confused in here. Is it the same 65k visa cap for Europe and India? Does that mean that Tata and Infosys have taken half of it and people who they hired weren't even working in US? I didn't squeeze into the last year's visa quota and decided to stay in UK (hearing - "if you reapply we might get a visa for you in a year" is not very encouraging). From what I heard, getting H1B is becoming quite of a race against time as the places are getting filled out quickly. I think I know why now.
- vignesh_vs_in 14y ago
  It is a per year limit. Most H1-Bs return back to India within a year and a new person will be sent to fill in the same position next year. That's why most people never get PR. The main reason is not to short charge the client, but to give chance to other workers in India, cause most companies pay them only $5k to $14k/per year back in India(That's the market rate in India). There is a rat race where people have to fight to fly to US or other western countries so that they can earn 10X more.
  - edderly 14y ago
    > Most H1-Bs return back to India within a year and a new person will be sent to fill in the same position next year. That sounds wrong. The period of the H1-B visa stay is three years.
seivan 14y ago
Hah! Mix of domain and technical knowledge...
eitally 14y ago
With a very broad brush, I think it's pretty straightforward to split H1-Bs into two categories: body shop consultancies... and everyone else. From the H1-Bs we employ, I know they receive comparable (and sometimes higher, since we tend to pay slightly below market and H1-B salaries are somewhat inflexible) salaries to their resident/citizen counterparts.

pawelwentpawel 14y ago

Top 10 users of H-1B visas last year were all offshore outsourcing firms such as Tata and Infosys. Together these firms hired nearly half of all H-1B workers, and less than 3 percent of them applied to become permanent residents. I'm a little bit confused in here. Is it the same 65k visa cap for Europe and India? Does that mean that Tata and Infosys have taken half of it and people who they hired weren't even working in US? I didn't squeeze into the last year's visa quota and decided to stay in UK (hearing - "if you reapply we might get a visa for you in a year" is not very encouraging). From what I heard, getting H1B is becoming quite of a race against time as the places are getting filled out quickly. I think I know why now.

vignesh_vs_in 14y ago
It is a per year limit. Most H1-Bs return back to India within a year and a new person will be sent to fill in the same position next year. That's why most people never get PR. The main reason is not to short charge the client, but to give chance to other workers in India, cause most companies pay them only $5k to $14k/per year back in India(That's the market rate in India). There is a rat race where people have to fight to fly to US or other western countries so that they can earn 10X more.
- edderly 14y ago
  > Most H1-Bs return back to India within a year and a new person will be sent to fill in the same position next year. That sounds wrong. The period of the H1-B visa stay is three years.

seivan 14y ago

Hah! Mix of domain and technical knowledge...

eitally 14y ago

With a very broad brush, I think it's pretty straightforward to split H1-Bs into two categories: body shop consultancies... and everyone else. From the H1-Bs we employ, I know they receive comparable (and sometimes higher, since we tend to pay slightly below market and H1-B salaries are somewhat inflexible) salaries to their resident/citizen counterparts.