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Re:2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors by protomyth on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:57PM (#12368881)
If I read it correctly, you could have 50 H1Bs at $50K and pay one at $200K, put a salary range down with it being truthful, and this survey would put the salary at $125K. I wonder if a FOIA request is possible?

Says quite a lot when 8 of the top 10 are body shops (with many debates about IBM being possible these days).

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Re:2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors by webosdude on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:55PM (#12369586)
Get your math right, 50 H1B's at 50K and 1 H1B at 200K would avg out close to 53K and not 125K.
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Re:2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors by protomyth on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:35PM (#12369782)
Read the disclaimer which says "Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary"

In my example, the form has 50K as the bottom of the range and 200K at the top. Using this site's methodology they take the "middle point of the range" which is 125K.

What your calculating is the example's actual average, not what the site would be reporting. That was the point of my post to show that the methodology likely does not match the truth and likely overestimates the salary.

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Re:2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors by random42 on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:26PM (#12369731)
If the range is $50k - $200k, this survey methodology would put it at the middle -- $125k.
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Re:2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors by jedmeyers on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:05PM (#12368939)
FOIA request won't help since this is exactly the same data as USCIS gets from the company applying for H1B.
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Re:2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors by makmanalp on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:15PM (#12369010)
Not sure this is true - the LCA should have the range, and that's done en masse, but the actual visa application should have the individual salary for that worker AFAIK.
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