Database of all H1B petitions by company

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-database#.VFssBVPF-hE

by ambrood • 12 years ago

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ambrood4• 12 years ago

I came across this link which lists in detail every H1B petition filed by an employer over last few years. One interesting thing is that they list the actually wage offered by a company for a given position to the beneficiary of each petition. This perhaps a more accurate representation of salaries in Tech industry than the glassdoor review.

johnloeber• 12 years ago

Indeed! Thankfully, someone has compiled this data and made it easily searchable: http://www.salar.ly/

mallyvai• 12 years ago

VisaDoor is a great resource, and we recommend it pretty heavily at http://OfferLetter.io .

There's something very visceral about being able to look at someone's specific offer, knowing that there is a person out there

I also wrote a bit about salary research in general, on our blog:

http://offerletter.io/blog/201410-research.html

And yes, to your point - absolutely more accurate than Glassdoor.

photoGrant• 12 years ago

As someone who has gone through this process, I'm sad to say the petition can have a 'projected' salary. So it's just as fudged a number as any. It holds no bearing on what the worker would truly get.

TheRubyist• 12 years ago

I'm wondering why my petition is not there... what could be the reason ?

easytiger• 12 years ago

I can't find some companies on there I know have done it too.

basicallydan2• 12 years ago

Can anybody tell me why wage offer and prevailing wage don't match up? Is there some kinda limit on what an immigrant can be paid?

tarikjn• 12 years ago

H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.

radmuzom• 12 years ago

Haha, having worked in the Indian offshoring industry for the last 9 years, I can only say that this is a joke. At least 100 of my co-workers have moved to US with wages much less than their American counterparts.

basicallydan2• 12 years ago

Oh, I see! So the "prevailing wage" column is the one that is the wage in the area. I understand now. I misunderstood it to mean "the wage which they actually were able to get after being employed".

Cool. Thanks for the explanation!

atlbeer• 12 years ago

I'm not sure how I feel about the fact I was just able to look up my bosses salary.

melling• 12 years ago

What's wrong with transparency?

nobodyshere• 12 years ago

Many companies forbid internal discussions of salary. You can easily guess why.

pjmlp• 12 years ago

In some countries we discuss openly about salaries.

untog• 12 years ago

But the US is not one of those countries, and this dataset is US specific.

obtino• 12 years ago

I haven't seen any tech company beating the number requests from IBM yet. Please post if you do...

gbvy• 12 years ago

Wipro has over 6,000 so far this year

kozikow• 12 years ago

Does anyone know if I can get the raw data in any form without scraping the website?q

RealGeek• 12 years ago

http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#d...

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx

imaginenore• 12 years ago

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/download.aspx

uberneo• 12 years ago

This just looks full of Ads .. more detailed Analytical analysis is here - https://chartio.com/blog/2013/09/the-data-behind-h1b-visas

kghose• 12 years ago

I was surprised that India leads green card applications by such a huge margin. China and India should be about level since they both send about the same number of students to higher ed in the US and in similar specialties. Though I do see a lot more Chinese nationals in genomics/molecular sciences.

ambrood4• 12 years ago

A fair amount of those GC applicants are also the people who came here via consulting companies like Wipro/TCS etc.

HeyLaughingBoy• 12 years ago

I was wondering about that because I saw only one application from my employer, but a few dozen from an Indian outsourcer that we have used in the past. This town is small enough that it's likely 90%+ of them are in this company.

polskibus• 12 years ago

Is there a similar database for L1a visas available?

bfwi• 12 years ago

It doesn't look like applications from Google have been denied. Since the H1B visas are drawn in a lottery where there's three times as many applications as the quota, how are Google able to get all their application certified?

EDIT: Apparently 21/2436 have been denied. That's still nowhere close to 2/3 though

jackhammer• 12 years ago

I can't find my own H1B in the database. I don't think the data is complete.

EDIT: I found another page that actually did have my own H1B: http://h1b.myftp.org/ . However, I believe it did show one H1B in my company as approved which is actually denied.

notnoop• 12 years ago

The published database is actually for the Foreign Labor Certification application (a.k.a LCA), which precedes making an H-1B application, and mostly approved. A certified LCA may not result into a successful H-1B petition though.

ambrood4• 12 years ago

Many of these applications are probably for a transfer of status implying that the beneficiaries are already on an H1B working for some other employer.

logfromblammo• 12 years ago

If you want more detailed information, companies that have Labor Certification Applications are required to maintain Public Access Files, to be presented for perusal on demand to anyone that wants to see it, both at the company headquarters and the facility where the nonimmigrant worker is working.

The LCA has to be included in the PAF, but there's other stuff in there, too.

Likely all useless to you unless you're an investigative reporter, immigration activist, or just masochistic statistician, but it's supposed to be there, nonetheless.

itcmcgrath• 12 years ago

s/H1B/LCA

I'm in that data, yet I have an E-3, not an H-1B.

One unintended consequence of moving to the US that I wasn't expecting is that now my friends back home roughly know what my salary is. I understood when moving here that the LCA (which has salary details) would be posted in public spaces, but I didn't notice it was also a matter of public record which in this day and age, means global public record.

I work in a smaller city, so while I may have been relatively anonymous in somewhere like Silicon Valley, my location, company and role and year of employment is more that enough to uniquely identify me. Such is life.

SeoxyS• 12 years ago

Good news is: visas which don't require labor certification do not appear in the data. I'm on an O-1 and I'm not in it.

prlambert• 12 years ago

Some interesting outliers in there, for example Google's CFO, Patrick Pichette, at $650,000 in 2012

[1]http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-2012-I-200-12121-384409/chief-fi...

Database of all H1B petitions by company

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