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I don't know the salaries of any of the H1-B visa holders at my company. Do you? Maybe we can make it a policy that companies make such information public when

I don't know the salaries of any of the H1-B visa holders at my company. Do you? Maybe we can make it a policy that companies make such information public when they employ more than N number of H1-B holders. With mean, median, standard deviation and error bars, you should be able to get an idea of whether or not this is happening. Besides these numbers for salary, it would also be interesting to see the same statistics for years of experience programming of domestic labor versus imported labor. I would expect to see a significantly greater mean and median years of experience among H1-B holders versus domestically sourced talent.

rahij 12y ago
It is public actually. Check out visadoor.com.
- malandrew 12y ago
  That data is extremely skimpy. Where is the comparative data? All I saw was one figure, "prevailing wage". What is the sample size? Is the sample based on workers operating in the same region (for example a company with multiple locations could very well cite a domestic salary relative to all locations (bringing the average down) or cite numbers from the cheapest region. etc. etc. etc. There are a many ways to lie with statistics and the number of ways you can lie with them is inversely proportional to the quantity of statistics released. For example, the first petition I clicked on was very fishy: https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspCert&doc_id=3&visa_class_id=6&id=871816 https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspC... $96k-116k offered for an engineering position that requires a master's degree and where the prevailing wage is quoted at $92k!? I want to see real numbers her.
  - refurb 12y ago
    Look up the methodology, it's on the Department of Labors website. Are you suggesting that the gov't is conspiring to keep wages low?
snowwrestler 12y ago
If a person doesn't know what the salaries are, how can they complain that the salaries are too low?
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rahij 12y ago

It is public actually. Check out visadoor.com.

malandrew 12y ago
That data is extremely skimpy. Where is the comparative data? All I saw was one figure, "prevailing wage". What is the sample size? Is the sample based on workers operating in the same region (for example a company with multiple locations could very well cite a domestic salary relative to all locations (bringing the average down) or cite numbers from the cheapest region. etc. etc. etc. There are a many ways to lie with statistics and the number of ways you can lie with them is inversely proportional to the quantity of statistics released. For example, the first petition I clicked on was very fishy: https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspCert&doc_id=3&visa_class_id=6&id=871816 https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspC... $96k-116k offered for an engineering position that requires a master's degree and where the prevailing wage is quoted at $92k!? I want to see real numbers her.
- refurb 12y ago
  Look up the methodology, it's on the Department of Labors website. Are you suggesting that the gov't is conspiring to keep wages low?

snowwrestler 12y ago

If a person doesn't know what the salaries are, how can they complain that the salaries are too low?

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