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The minimum salary for an H1-B software engineer in Silicon Valley is $84,000, which is on the low end of market but not egregiously low. You can check out the

• adamnemecek 13y ago
  From your link: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=41884&code=15-1131&year=13&source=1 http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=41884... Level 1 Wage:$34.11 hour - $70,949 year Level 2 Wage:$40.52 hour - $84,282 year Level 3 Wage:$46.94 hour - $97,635 year Level 4 Wage:$53.35 hour - $110,968 year From http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000 http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000 National: 15-1131 Computer Programmers detail 316,790 1.2% 2.431 $35.71 $37.63 $78,260 0.6% SF: 15-1131 Computer Programmers detail 9,080 11.1% 4.603 1.89 $47.49 $47.71 $99,240 1.6% So if you factor in stuff like the costs of filing H1-B and such, it's similar. I'm not sure if the statistics are comparable though.