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I am confused by one thing here. If you and other person had similar jobs, why was the other H1B approved, considering legally they are required to pay comparab
by akshat_h 11y ago
I am confused by one thing here. If you and other person had similar jobs, why was the other H1B approved, considering legally they are required to pay comparably?
I keep hearing Tata, Wipro, Cognizant as the main culprits, but being a Grad student in the US, I know quite a few Indian students(being one myself as well) and none of them aspires or even thinks about working for these companies.
- davidxray 11y agoThe other H1B gets approved because: 1. The government mostly rubber-stamps H1B applications. 2. The company is required to pay "prevailing wage" which isn't necessarily market rate. 3. Companies play fast and loose with titles. They can present "Computer Programmer" as the title in the application but in reality the worker is a Linux Kernel hacker.
- akshat_h 11y agoThat seems worse for the actual candidates. With the lottery being what it is, there is I think almost 50% chance of a candidate getting H1B. Also for prevailing wage, I checked what a Computer Programmer should make in SF. I got these as results Area Title:San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metropolitan Division OES/SOC Code:15-1131 OES/SOC Title:Computer Programmers GeoLevel:1 Level 1 Wage:$31.26 hour - $65,021 year Level 2 Wage:$39.56 hour - $82,285 year Level 3 Wage:$47.86 hour - $99,549 year Level 4 Wage:$56.16 hour - $116,813 year Mean Wage (H-2B):$47.86 hour - $99,549 year That doesn't seem bad, so I am guessing these companies are doing some really "creative" fudging up to give low wages. For reference the url for finding this for other jobs and locations is http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OESWizardStart.aspx http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OESWizardStart.aspx EDIT: Formatting