A Good Reason to Boycott Disney

ucbalumnus
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:53:35 +0000

musicprnt:

That was changed, and today for an H1B all the person is required to have is a college degree or equivalent experience, and the looking for someone in the US first is pretty much a joke. More importantly, the salary being ‘at market’ has been left up to the company, which basically means they can pay what they want, no one checks it.

In practice, the companies that directly hire H-1B workers do pay reasonable amounts (the comparison group is master’s degree graduates from US universities with 0-6 years of experience).

musicprnt:

What made it worse is they allowed the H1B visa to be held by consulting firms, places like Wipro and Infosys, not to mention companies like Accenture and IBM in their consulting services. As a result, companies wishing to hire workers often can’t get an H1B, because they have been gobbled up by consulting companies.

On the other hand, the outsourcing companies like those named above are targeting a lower level employee, and often in IT (rather than CS), for whom the comparison group in the US (if there is any) is significantly lower paid.

It is also the case that the outsourcing companies are gaming the visa system to take most of the visas for low end IT employees, so that the direct hiring companies that are actually hiring top talent often cannot get the visas.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx shows the top H-1B visa users and their average pay levels. Note that 18 out of the top 25 on the first page are outsourcing companies. Compare the pay levels between the outsourcing companies ($67,673 to $102,643, mostly at the lower end of the range, on the first page) to the direct hire companies ($103,632 to $133,593 on the first page).