New-age cos like Netflix, Airbnb top H-1B salaries

Times of India ^ | Dec 3, 2020 | Shilpa Phadnis | TNN

[11th_VA]

BENGALURU: Netflix pays the most to H-1B talent. The content platform pays $205,532 in average compensation, followed by vacation rental marketplace Airbnb ($168,306), ridesharing service Lyft ($167,650) and on-demand food delivery service Doordash ($160,444), data from Dice.com and H-1B Visa Salary Database shows. This new breed of technology firms shell out more to H-1B employees than Google and Apple, which pay $144,285 and $139,457 respectively. H-1Bs are longterm work visas and many of the recipients are Indians.

[11th_VA]

OoooKaaay ....

[KingofZion]

I am sure they could find thousands of US citizens to do those jobs at those wages. I know a dozen myself and I’m not even in the tech industry.

It is too bad that Biden will open the floodgates soon as payoff to all the tech titans who contributed to his campaign.

[NobleFree]

Those numbers sound fishy, and the article’s links are crap.

[Gay State Conservative]

I refuse to believe that there aren't enough citizens + Green Card holders to properly fill every skilled position. I'm willing to pay a bit more for certain things in exchange for H1-B visas being eliminated.

[a fool in paradise]

I’ve seen internally posted job notices for foreign workers at my tech company. $150,000 a year for a 3 year+ role.

No internal application (or even specifics on the jobs).

Just a public notice (around a corner) posted to say that the company will be bringing in 10 or so foreign workers at great salaries.

[rfp1234]

Most of the displaced US citizen tech workers will be in Kalipornia.
They’ll move to NV and AZ and continue to furk them up..

[NobleFree]

Just a public notice (around a corner) posted

A tech company I worked for pulled the same crap - to meet the legal posting requirement, they put it in a corner above a copier.

[Svartalfiar]

The content platform pays $205,532 in average compensation, followed by vacation rental marketplace Airbnb ($168,306), ridesharing service Lyft ($167,650) and on-demand food delivery service Doordash ($160,444), data from Dice.com and H-1B Visa Salary Database shows. This new breed of technology firms shell out more to H-1B employees than Google and Apple, which pay $144,285 and $139,457 respectively.

And how much do these companies pay their non-H1B employees? For how many tech workers keep getting fired and training their replacements, how are these companies not able to hire those guys at these wage levels? Hell, I bet most of the unemployed would be willing to work for even less than those numbers...

[11th_VA]

Most of the displaced US citizen tech workers will be in Kalipornia

HP announced today, they are leaving CA for TX

[Disambiguator]

HP announced today, they are leaving CA for TX

They can set up shop in the old Varicorp facilities.

/obscure movie reference

[rfp1234]

Carly Horseface wrecked them. They finally gave in.