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Re:Protip for salary seekers: H1-B filings are public by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @09:27PM (#2445044)
No, this has nothing to do with the prevailing wage. You'll notice that each row indicates the "prevailing wage", as well as the wage that the company is actually asking to pay someone.

The prevailing wage is always way lower (and a joke, basically), satisfying their obligation to pay greater than or equal to, but that is not the interesting part of this data.

To be clear - this isn't a link to the LCA data (although each application includes it). This is actual individual salaries that were approved to a worker.

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Re:Protip for salary seekers: H1-B filings are public by georgecmu on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @10:23PM (#2445264)
I'm not saying you should look at prevailing wage to see how much you should get paid. I'm saying that prevailing wage (listed on each application) is an indication of how much the employers' estimates of salaries for purposes of low-balling their foreign staff are out of touch with reality. I was too embarrassed to share my actual salary, which was higher than their 'prevailing' wage, but still pitifully small.
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