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Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

582 pointsby negritalmost 10 years ago

58 comments

stickydinkalmost 10 years ago
Be aware this shows the salary as it was when the visa was applied for; which is often many months before the visa (end supposedly, the job) begins.<p>I found myself on here (the only H-1B at my company), and the salary is almost $20k less than what I was being paid by the time the visa stamp actually arrived, and $80k less than today (3 years in).<p>As frustrating as actually going through the US immigration system is, I do appreciate that they put out some good data on it.<p>I&#x27;m currently going through PERM (and again, frustrations, audits, and personal nightmares aside), it&#x27;s great to see that I can look at all the processed applications from just 1-2 days ago - and see details on company&#x2F;role. There are plenty of sites that the ugly&#x2F;difficult data that govt puts out itself, and makes it a bit easier to navigate; one example I&#x27;ve used is dolstats.com
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negritalmost 10 years ago
Hello everyone. I quickly built this little tool based on public records provided by the government.<p>The amount of information they provide is incredible. There are no explicit names, but for small startup or exec position it is easy to guess who is who.<p>As far as I know this is the biggest LCA database so far.
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jamram82almost 10 years ago
I would like to sound a caution, if you are using this data for any kind of salary negotiation.<p>- LCA for a candidate is filed only once per company as long as he is in the same job role. Factos like getting promoted to Senior X, recent pay-hikes would not get reflected in LCA.<p>- Wage listed may not include bonus, and other compensation. So dont leave money on the table while negotiating. Crosscheck with glassdoor.<p>- Companies also go through frequent job title changes, so it is possible you might miss more dataset hidden in other job titles.<p>- When you are looking for wage related idea, only latest year matters.<p>- Some people have mentioned earlier that H1B have 10-20% less salary. My personal experience says otherwise. There is always bound to be variation even among non H1B.<p>Finally - I am not a lawyer, and none of it are legal or professional advice.
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tdees40almost 10 years ago
I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.
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3principalmost 10 years ago
There is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM recruited in 2014 who earns $7,278,870,000? [1]<p>How do I get this job? :)<p>EDIT: The application was withdrawn. That saved them some money.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;ibm-corporation&#x2F;2014?order_salary=desc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;ibm-corporation&#x2F;2014?ord...</a>
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Chinmayhalmost 10 years ago
Looks like visas are made for Indian companies and not american companies <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies</a>
acidflaskalmost 10 years ago
Darnit, I missed out on the $43,264,000 postdoc at MIT in 2008.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;massachusetts-institute-of-technology&#x2F;2008?page=2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;massachusetts-institute-...</a>
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paxtonabalmost 10 years ago
Wow, you aren&#x27;t kidding when you say Netflix pays well!
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tdees40almost 10 years ago
There&#x27;s a software engineer at Google making $1.1M. That is all.
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Buetolalmost 10 years ago
Would love to have a dump of the data: Every time people scrape these data, they have to clean it again and again.
moeyalmost 10 years ago
For all the nay sayers, this information provided is for the good of all.<p>If a company declares they can&#x27;t find talent here in the states and want to hire from outside this information helps:<p>- Makes sure the company doesn&#x27;t just go hunting for cheaper labor overseas and bring people here for 40k<p>- Allows the international employee to view salaries to see if they&#x27;re getting a fair offer<p>- Helps U.S. Citizens keep there job&#x2F;pay because the company can&#x27;t go higher other people for 40k.
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dogma1138almost 10 years ago
Some really strange application from IBM :P<p>H-1B Senior Software Engineer $7,278,870,000 Year $63,294 Philadelphia, PA Unknown 1 Withdrawn 15-1131
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bitfoolishalmost 10 years ago
According to this site, my company has LCAs with salary 12% to 26% MORE than what I&#x27;m making for the same title! I didn&#x27;t know I was getting screwed like this. I was happy with my job until I saw this site today.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what to do now. Should I tell my boss about this and ask for a big raise this year? How would they react if I showed this data to them and demanded that my salary at least match these numbers?
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pjc50almost 10 years ago
The salary information is potentially very useful in negotiations ..
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thro1237almost 10 years ago
The site shows average salary, but it would be nice to see Median salary. In fact, it might be best to split the salaries into different quartiles.
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Lawtonfoglealmost 10 years ago
Check out Wal Mart during year 2002. Either there is some interesting story or the data has a problem. Average salary goes up by about 50 times before dropping back down by about as much the next year.<p>Edit: Being there are so many Wal Marts, I mean this one. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;wal-mart-associates-inc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;wal-mart-associates-inc</a>
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untogalmost 10 years ago
Weird seeing yourself listed on a site like this! I imagine my co-workers could find me if they were so motivated.<p>(this isn&#x27;t a criticism of the site - just an interesting side effect of this kind of data transparency)
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smikhanovalmost 10 years ago
When searching for &quot;google&quot;, one can find few interestingly named companies, like &quot;google iniiii iiiiiiiiiiiiii&quot;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;employer=google&amp;commit=Search%21" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;employer=goo...</a><p>I wonder what those are about.
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alistairSHalmost 10 years ago
Interesting to see the salary ranges at my employer. With similar titles, the range is quite large, even within the same physical location. And modifiers like &quot;senior&quot; or &quot;principal&quot; don&#x27;t appear to correlate with the listed salary.
pdxalmost 10 years ago
I would love to be able to query the whole dataset at once, instead of company by company.<p>For example, I&#x27;d like to see everything in $city, and then be able to sort that by salary or job description.
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onion2kalmost 10 years ago
Really interesting project. If you look at small but relatively well known companies, eg Magic Leap[1], it&#x27;s possible to get some real insight in to where they&#x27;re focusing their efforts.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;magic-leap-inc&#x2F;2015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;magic-leap-inc&#x2F;2015</a>
tixocloudalmost 10 years ago
It&#x27;s a really clean implementation. However, it took me a while to understand what the website was all about (wasn&#x27;t sure what LCAs are, etc.) One improvement could be making the messaging more accessible and less technical.<p>We are interested in an API and would love to hear your plans about it. Will shoot you an email :)
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theflorkalmost 10 years ago
Very cool site! I found similar data a while back, but nowhere near this organized&#x2F;pretty to look at. It helped me make the decision of NOT taking a job that I had a hunch was a lowball offer.<p>Does anyone know if companies are allowed to include the bonus $ in the &#x27;salary&#x27; figure in these LCAs?
shadyslayeralmost 10 years ago
Someone was offered with $201M salary? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;wipro-limited&#x2F;2014?order_salary=desc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;wipro-limited&#x2F;2014?order...</a>
mattdotcalmost 10 years ago
Thanks, this is a very good job so far. I do have one question, though.<p>What is your reasoning for having the upward-facing arrow &#x2F;\ serve as the descending sort and downward-facing \&#x2F; as ascending? It feels backwards to me and a bit counter intuitive.
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ajaysalmost 10 years ago
You need to dedupe the companies better. I just searched for &quot;LinkedIn&quot;, and found several matches:<p><pre><code> 1 linkedin, ltd. 2 linkedin, inc. 3 linkedin, corp. 4 linkedin ltd, inc. 5 linkedin corporation</code></pre>
btbuildemalmost 10 years ago
So many ways to misspell &quot;microsoft&quot;!
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guavaalmost 10 years ago
Minor bug: the Home tab stays highlighted regardless of which page you are on: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies</a>.<p>Good job otherwise!
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conanbattalmost 10 years ago
For all the H-1B is &quot;cheap labor complains&quot; the fact that this information is public is horrible. Its a very asymetric relationship with your colleagues. If this were really meant to be about transparent controls, it should be tied to the wages of the other employees.<p>Cant believe there isnt a single comment about privacy issues regarding this here.<p>EDIT: after scrolling a bit I did find some. Kudos to that conversation, though this has to be off-putting. The OP is also playing with people&#x27;s information. He hasnt put his next to it, for example. Not that it would have been enough.
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Scoundrelleralmost 10 years ago
What&#x27;s being used on the front-end to display the tables and pages and the back-end to store all the info?<p>Time required to create?<p>Other fun details?<p>(I ask because I have another dataset I want to work on recreating online in a searchable manner)
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gdillaalmost 10 years ago
Even though this is anonymous, at big companies like Apple, you can see executive salaries with specific enough job titles that it&#x27;s easy with a little LinkedIn sleuthing to know the person&#x27;s identity. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;apple-inc&#x2F;2013?order_salary=desc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;apple-inc&#x2F;2013?order_sal...</a> - you know the person is a foreigner, and you know about when they began their job.
prestyalmost 10 years ago
Here are some other interesting queries:<p>Associate and Analysts at Kleiner Perkins <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers-llc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;kleiner-perkins-caufield...</a><p>Partners at Sequoia <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;sequoia-capital-operations-llc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies&#x2F;sequoia-capital-operatio...</a>
xixixaoalmost 10 years ago
Hmm, was hoping this would show the denied percentage, but the &quot;denied&quot; column doesn&#x27;t corresponds to reality, not sure what it&#x27;s supposed to represent.
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bkjeldenalmost 10 years ago
Does anyone know how accurate employers are legally required to be with these? Is this just base salary, or are they allowed to include cash bonuses, stock bonuses, etc?
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tomkinstinchalmost 10 years ago
Nicely made. It would be helpful to view the information grouped by job title, with summary statistics on salary across all employers, possibly also with standardized numbers that include adjustments for differences in regional cost of living for the various worksite locations (via either BLS numbers or whatever wolfram alpha uses to get equivalent salaries for other cities).<p>It&#x27;s also a little depressing to see salaries this high (I&#x27;m at a non-profit).
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ckamin5almost 10 years ago
Do these numbers include bonus&#x2F;stock or is it just base?
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oimazalmost 10 years ago
Wow, immigrants have no privacy in this country. Imagine, if US citizen salaries were made public like this. How would that make you feel?
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bankimalmost 10 years ago
Nicely done. This is useful to gauge salary levels in your current company and also what companies in similar domain are paying in the area.<p>There is another website <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dolstats.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dolstats.com&#x2F;</a> that gathers data from PERM applications. I&#x27;ve found it useful for comparing salaries when looking for new job.
titomcalmost 10 years ago
The USCIS publishes this data in an excel sheet format. You can find the raw data here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov&#x2F;performancedata.cfm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov&#x2F;performancedata.cfm</a> . I made use of this data to negotiate salary and came out successful.
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srameshcalmost 10 years ago
This site is nicely done and very clean. I used to get similar information from myvisajobs.com before. Well done :)
NonEUCitizenalmost 10 years ago
Are L-1 visa salaries publicly available? I know some Engineers who&#x27;ve come in on L-1 visas.
iagooaralmost 10 years ago
How is it, that in the US people earn between 20k and 200k this easily? It&#x27;s just insane...
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laaczalmost 10 years ago
It strikes me as odd that Microsoft is second[1] - being ahead of companies which specialise exactly on acquiring workforce from outside US.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.jobsintech.io&#x2F;companies</a>
gfarkasalmost 10 years ago
I recently started toying with the idea of moving to the US so this seems immensely useful.<p>By the way, does anyone know a good blog post or something on the process of applying for H1B jobs? I don&#x27;t have a clear picture on how the whole thing works at this pont.
parennoobalmost 10 years ago
H1B here. Two small caveats with these data sets.<p>1. They may be incomplete. My position (2010) does not show up at all here, though it does on one of the other similar salary trackers.<p>2. They do not reflect raises. My salary is ~14k more than my starting salary over 3 years.
montz1almost 10 years ago
That&#x27;s cool. There&#x27;s a bunch of site that have this data. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;salarytalk.org&#x2F;h1bwage" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;salarytalk.org&#x2F;h1bwage</a> has similar information on the data set.
sjg007almost 10 years ago
Well damn. This really tells you how hot the market is and how much information asymmetry there is in job negotiation: it is interesting to see the variance in each company at the same prevailing wage.
mathattackalmost 10 years ago
Are we overrunning the server? Seems like it&#x27;s gotten slow.<p>At first indication the #s seem pretty accurate for where I&#x27;ve worked, though they only capture base salary. (No bonus, equity, etc)
zkhaliquealmost 10 years ago
I didn&#x27;t know salaries of visa holders are public information!
visadooralmost 10 years ago
Shameless plugin. Also checkout <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com</a>, which provides the same information and more.
AstroChimpHamalmost 10 years ago
Is there a way to remove &quot;withdrawn&quot; applications from averages? There are a lot of decimal point errors there, which skew the average way up.
snowwrestleralmost 10 years ago
How would you distinguish this from visadoor.com? What does it do better?<p>(Not trying to challenge or insult--trying to learn.)
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CodeSheikhalmost 10 years ago
Someone at IBM: Senior Software Engineer $7,278,870,000 Philadelphia!! Probably some lucrative patent.
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largotealmost 10 years ago
TN Visas for Canadians and Mexicans seem to be missing, even though H1B1s and E3s are shown.
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Nemantalmost 10 years ago
Search for &quot;Amazon&quot; gives me 87 different companies
nabucodonosoralmost 10 years ago
checkout <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wageoffer.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wageoffer.com</a>
sciencesamaalmost 10 years ago
very interesting now i know how much my manger makes !! data is scary !!
princetontigeralmost 10 years ago
Did anyone check out netflix? You can really see salaries spike in 2012&#x2F;2013 time frame.<p>Is this due to the massive wave of VC-fund companies now competing for talent?