visadoor H1B salary histogram
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visadoor H1B salary histogram
A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers in the software industry
swizec.github.io#h1b salaries#software engineer pay#h1b data#salary histogram
How HN took it
1 positive, 46 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 23 critical, out of 71 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Execution: 0 for, 16 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against
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Clean, simple data app
From 1 comment
Nice work, love clean and simple data apps like this. (Do they have a good name? E.g., stuff like the NY Times "Upshot" interactive data apps?[1]) Two suggestions: 1. Make the…
chavesn on HN
Objections
Data may not reflect actual pay; contract or proxy hires distort salaries
From 3 comments
I own a company that specializes in hiring H1Bs and placing them into contract roles. The data doesn't look very accurate. For one thing, this data doesn't appear to represent…
emcrazyone on HNThe data would be more meaningful if it separated out direct hires (Company X directly hires the employee) verses proxy hires (Company X contracts Company Y for employees) as…
spiralpolitik on HNDoes this actually represent the salary of the individual or what a consulting company is paying for them, or a combination of both?
bstar77 on HN
Inconsistent axis scales across charts
From 2 comments
I am an unabashed infographic fanatic, but one thing that really throws me off here is the changing scale between graphs. I think it'd be a lot easier to flip through these tabs…
hoprocker on HNIt would be better to fix the axis so that we get the info by the position of the hisogram. Example: When you're at "Engineer", and then you click "Programmer", the histogram…
Jugurtha on HN
Bugs when switching states and fields
From 3 comments
Ran into several bugs when switching to a state & field.
simook on HNThere is a bug in the histogram for Vermont.
akgerber on HNOP: the 'administrator' button doesn't load new data, leaves previously rendered data in place.
mh- on HN
Possible privacy exposure of individual salaries in small groups
From 2 comments
If you know the one H1Ber in Alaska, you now know their salary.
eggoa on HNThere is a privacy issue in government releasing the H1B salary data publicly. If you are a H1b worker working at a small startup, your privacy is pretty much violated. In the…
lnkmails on HN
Requests
Compare H1B salaries with normal salaries
From 1 comment
It'd be interesting to see how H1B salaries compare to normal salaries, but that data probably isn't publicly available, right?
ensmotko on HN
Adjust salaries for cost of living
From 2 comments
This is not relevant: > The best city for software engineers was Menlo Park with an average salary of $130,640 The best city for software engineers should not determined on…
negrit on HNwould be interesting to factor in living cost and rank states by best-to-live-by-H1Bs.
juggernautq on HN
Separate direct hires from proxy hires
From 1 comment
The data would be more meaningful if it separated out direct hires (Company X directly hires the employee) verses proxy hires (Company X contracts Company Y for employees) as…
spiralpolitik on HN
Questions
Where the data came from and how accurate it is
From 1 comment
I'm wondering where the data came from and how accurate it it is. "In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers." Ok so here I am assuming you…
JeremyMorgan on HN
Difference between developer and engineer titles
From 2 comments
Super interesting to see the pay differences between "programmer" vs "developer" vs "engineer". With the other titles there is either an inference of management/hierarchy…
k3fernan on HNWow, that disparity between developer and engineer... I'm not an H1B worker, but does this mean I should start calling myself an Engineer?
arenaninja on HN
Alternatives named
salarytalk.org
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. I created a similar site http://salarytalk.org/search. I has has more charts and search capabilities for the same dataset across 2010-2014. For aggregate…
montz1 on HN
visadoor.com
From 2 comments
Some interesting stats here too: http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-by-companies-2014 http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-by-states-2014 http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-by-cities-2014…
hyperlz on HNA few of you have mentioned http://www.visadoor.com below. I am the builder of the site and really did it for my own use. If you find any bugs or need any features implemented,…
visadoor on HN