I am aware it is illegal for a potential new employer to ask for current comp. details ( in California, I guess) during salary negotiation. However, I am wondering if they get to know about those details from their immigration lawyers later and/or if immigration lawyers are required to divulge all info about the candidate. If one is on a work visa ( like h1b), the lawyers do ask for previous payslips and all that for filing one’s new petition. So, they have the previous comp info. Of course, one would get to this part only after offer’s been made and accepted - but, still wondering if lawyers are required to /can/do share the info? tc 315
As far as I know, the relationship between you and attorneys is separate from the employer attorney relationship. Can they? Yes but Any respectable firm won’t as it creates a liability. Also no one is out to get you so relax.
Sometimes they do. Did u lie about ur pay?
no, I haven’t even interviewed yet :) One strategy for getting higher tc, especially if you get lowballed and have no better competing offer, I am told, is to simply say that the offer is somewhat similar to my current comp. I realize that it seems to make no sense
You may use it to get higher tc on your offer. But there are chances after u’ve joined ur manager will see immigration package from lawyers
You get an offer before you start with immigration process. So they cannot low-ball you.
What concerns you about your previous pay stubs?
i somehow thought that the pay stubs would list my current tc and I was wondering if I could just say that I don’t like their low ball offer as it is in the same ballpark as what I currently make ( especially if there is no substantially better competing offer). However, i think I may be overthinking things as I just realized that the paystubs do not list RSUs. So, the wages listed there is just base pay( unless you have had something vested recently/ gotten bonus etc)
Qualcomm lists (vesting) RSUs on paystubs as an "RSU offset" that is added to the income amount and then taken off as a deduction purely as a means of calculating tax liability in the pay period that the RSUs vest. This doesn't give a full picture of what you've been granted but does show at least some RSUs that have vested that period.