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Comment by gcb0 | Hacker News Reader

let me try to help you fill the data you assumed with concrete examples.

search H1b applications for google and other companies. you will see google hires with 60-100k salaries.

being stuck for 10yrs on the lowest end of our category pay is very far from "high social mobility"

Only one data point but this [1] suggests otherwise. It invalidates the idea that the median is in the < 100k range however it does not speak to mobility, i.e. that you may be stuck with an entry level salary for a longtime because you are indentured to the company that facilitated your H1b.

[1]: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE+INC&job=SOFTWARE+EN...

Google sponsors its H1B employees for green cards. If the goal was to lock in the workforce to pay them less, they wouldn't be doing that.

Most actual H1B abuse happens in companies like Tata and Infosys, that are structured around it.

Median $127K on that search, FWIW

Well over $100K, but that won’t go as far in San Jose as it would in Sacramento :-)

$60-100K sounds really unlikely for engineering positions. A poster a bit down claims $127K, which sounds low but not unbelievably low for base salary.

I can only really talk about my own experience, but I think the paysa total comp numbers are close enough to throw rocks at the truth.

Yeah those salary markers don't include the RSU :)

Software engineers don't get hired to Google with 60-100k salaries, not even close.

They do: I was. Admittedly, at the top end of that range, and so one might argue that inflation has hopefully made that statement not true now (I would hope Google's hiring salaries have kept up), but the person you're responding to is also discussing H-1B, and I would expect the salaries there are not as attractive as normal hires.

Salaries for h1b cannot be lower than salaries for others by law. And nobody gets a total comp under 100k anymore.

> Salaries for h1b cannot be lower than salaries for others by law.

Yes that is the law. And companies break that law all of the time.

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