H1B Visa Salary Database

Two things seem worth mentioning:<p>1. The usual suspects that petition Congress for more H1-B visas seem to be paying their employees at or above market.<p>2. Several Indian IT body shops are spamming the process, vastly reducing the effective slots available for the group above. Infosys, for example filed several applications for &quot;Systems Engineers&quot;, whatever that means, in San Francisco, paying 74k$[1]<p>Searching by title, Infosys seems to be the only company hiring people for the role, I wonder prevailing wage determination works in these cases :-) [2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=INFOSYS+LIMITED&amp;job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&amp;city=SAN+FRANCISCO&amp;year=2015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=INFOSYS+LIMITED&amp;job=SYSTEMS...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=&amp;job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&amp;city=&amp;year=2015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=&amp;job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&amp;...</a>

Interesting after looking at prior employers.<p>Two comments:<p>1 - It&#x27;s only base salaries. No equity and bonus are included.<p>2 - People work the job titles to justify comp. (Moving up, or down) And the title for the government doesn&#x27;t always match the one used by the employee or company. So it&#x27;s tough to infer too much for one or two data points.

This is an amazing source of salary information. This must be a great when job hunting (especially as H1B) to see what ranges companies you apply to hire at.

This is amazing, from the businesses I&#x27;ve worked with, it&#x27;s about what I expected. What I&#x27;m wondering is if these salaries are what those of us who don&#x27;t need a visa should be expecting? I&#x27;m paid in line with these salaries and seems pretty bog standard. As a result, they certainly aren&#x27;t getting much of a discount.<p>Please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong. If me being paid the same as H1B visa employees is not right, I&#x27;ll probably get in gear to find another place to work soon. If I am right and these are accurate for native and H1B&#x27;s, then there&#x27;s probably at least a 5-10K premium increase for citizens. Maybe more.

There&#x27;s also Green Card PERM Salary data available on sites like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com</a>.<p>H1B&#x27;s typically have less years of experience compared to Green Card applications, even through both their titles might say Senior Software Engineer for example. If you are researching salaries, I would definitely look into PERM Salaries as well.<p>Glassdoor groups all the salaries reported for a title over the years in one bucket. Hence, I find the PERM and Labor data very helpful because you can see how salaries have changed over years.<p>Eg. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;facebook-inc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;facebook-inc</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com&#x2F;h1b&#x2F;index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc.&amp;year=2016&amp;submit=Search" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com&#x2F;h1b&#x2F;index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc.&amp;year=...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com&#x2F;greencards&#x2F;index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc.&amp;year=2016&amp;submit=Search" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;visadoor.com&#x2F;greencards&#x2F;index?company=Facebook%2C+Inc...</a>

Nice, but the data needs cleanup &#x2F; clustering (all the variants on &quot;NEW YORK CITY&quot;, &quot;NEW YORK, NY&quot; etc).

There are no rules or regulations to issuing a labor clearance for a h1. I know many cases where the companies used the lowest possible salary and it job description that has nothing to do with the actual job itself. But the labor office has no way to know that and enforce. I don&#x27;t know how that can be fixed.

This is actually somewhat misleading, because it&#x27;s listing labor certification data; not actually granted visas. Given the H1B lottery that means it contains a lot of certifications for jobs that could never be filled.

An analysis of game industry H-1B data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orcahq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;game-industry-salary-explorer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orcahq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;game-industry-salary-explorer</a><p>And a tool to instantly search and view salary distributions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orcahq.com&#x2F;salaries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orcahq.com&#x2F;salaries</a>

These are the lower bounds. The actual salaries can actually be higher.

How I wish I had this information during my job hunt! Knowing what the employer (who picked you for interview) <i>plans</i> to pay you up front is an important bargaining advantage.

I keep coming back to this site. I&#x27;m seriously going to use this in a salary negotiation if someone ever tries to lowball me again.

IBM: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=IBM*&amp;job=&amp;city=&amp;year=All" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=IBM*&amp;job=&amp;city=&amp;year=All</a>

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