
Originally Posted by
Melonie
^^^ again you're attempting to provide more 'rocks' in hopes that they aren't 'turned over'. Your link for mechanical engineers doesn't mention whether the salaries published are for a Bachelor's degree or a Master's degree or a Doctorate degree. Also, the supposed average salary numbers published by a website whose main purpose is to collect placement fees from employers for finding them H1B workers and seeking gov't visa approvals strike me as being 'less than objective'. It also doesn't state other minor details such as the location of the work, the job responsibilities beyond a 40 hour week, etc. For that reason, I tend to give more credibility to actual comparison studies based on gov't statistics ...
(snip)"Miano had some difficulty matching OES job codes with LCA job titles, which employers typically create. Where both the OES and the LCA listed a job as "programmer/analyst," Miano took the conservative approach of assuming that the LCA was describing a programmer, a job title that typically earns a lower wage than a systems analyst.
Nonetheless, Miano's report shows that wages paid to H-1B workers in computer programming occupations had a mean salary of $52,312, while the OES mean was $67,700; a difference of $15,388. The report also lists the OES median salary as $65,003, or $12,691 higher than the H-1B median.
When you look at computer job titles by state, California has one of the biggest differentials between OES salaries and H-1B salaries. The average salary for a programmer in California is $73,960, according to the OES. The average salary paid to an H-1B visa worker for the same job is $53,387; a difference of $20,573."(snip)
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