New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr

Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by gautambay on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:40PM (#13533734)

Thanks for this!

I've been on multiple H1B visas, at both large companies and startups. I've also sponsored H1B visas as an employer. I would support this bill.

The headline is a classic example of sensational journalism by the Times of India.

The $130k salary requirement applies only to "dependent employers", defined as employers with over 15% of their workforce on H1Bs. This is clearly aimed at reducing H1B misuse by TCS, Infosys, and their ilk.

The vast majority of companies who employ people on H1Bs aren't "dependent" employers by this definition, and hence will be unaffected by the salary increase rule. If anything, they'll benefit from more visas being available to non-dependent employers.

Also, startups will likely benefit from the 20% requirement.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by MR4D on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:44PM (#13535021)

As you said, this seems to penalize the Infosys-type companies, and seems to give favorable treatment to Silicon Valley firms. Given that's her district, this should not be surprising.

Regardless of the merits of this particular bill, at least we now have a conversation going with both political sides weighing in.

Here's hoping that they end up somewhere rational.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by hazerv on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:08AM (#13539810)

EOD, this is just a bill, such bills have been introduced in the past but never saw the light of day, its just that, this time around, this is being introduced under Trump.

All in all, there are some benefits in this bill. Does it say anything about green card backlog? or was my interpretation wrong?

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by electrichead on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:13PM (#13534751)

Although a startup might only marginally benefit because a single one would be a significant portion of their employees, right? So it would be over 15% right off the bat if they have fewer than 7 people

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by filoleg on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:48PM (#13535055)

I think this 15% rule applies only to companies with more than 50 employees

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by klipt on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:57PM (#13537490)

Note that this bill is completely separate from Trump's possible upcoming executive order which may also affect H1B:

https://www.murthy.com/2017/01/31/possible-executive-order-t...

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by neeleshs on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:33PM (#13535978)

There are enough unscrupulous actors that will pay 130k on paper and have ways of paying much less in reality. Enforcement and audits will also have to increase correspondingly, and penalties must be severe.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by manicdee on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:40PM (#13536040)

In Australia, 7-11 was paying staff minimum wage then demanding half of it back in cash. Literally mugging their own staff.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by flukus on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:50PM (#13536627)

A lot of fly in fly out workers too. They make good salaries but have to spend a massive chunk of it "renting" accommodation off their employer.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by angry_octet on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:11AM (#13540412)

Since when? Those are (were) real $250k salaries. Accom (a donga) and flights are included. Living in Perth is pretty expensive though, and in fact many live in Bali.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by hn_news on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:54PM (#13535615)

this makes perfect sense. thank you! these sensationalist article titles are very misleading!!!!

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by deeth_starr on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:23PM (#13534245)

And Samsung US. They pay H1B's absolute crap. This would be a good thing for them.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by serge2k on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:35PM (#13534935)

http://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=samsung&job=&city=&year...

Just a glance, doesn't seem that bad.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by deeth_starr on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:20PM (#13535341)

You're including Austin, TX (Semiconductor) in that search. Their CA engineer salaries are much lower. Also, I wonder about that data. I've seen bigger CA databases that have more records and lower salaries. Also, look at what AirBNB pays their H1B's.

http://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=SAMSUNG+RESEARCH+AMERIC...

Edit: Sorry, going to retract this. My data is a few years old. It seems like they have started paying market rates.

http://h1bpay.com/salaries?company=samsung+&city=mountain+vi...

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