Was reading minimum salary requirement for level 2 (Masters) for hardware engineers in bay area. It seems to target h1bs to be in at least the 45th percentile- and is $170k base salary for bay area. See link below: https://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=17-2072&area=41940&year=21&source=3 For southern california it seems to be $149k for level 2 (Masters). See link below: https://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=17-2072&area=31080&year=21&source=3 I read somewhere this applies to fixed wages and income (ie, base salary) and does not include RSU or Bonus. This seems very high bar for HW engineers. How will this impact current H1b HW engineers for visa renewals or future international students? Very few companies offer such high base in HW for new college grad or for less years experience. What are u guys doing about this? Will companies adjust base salary due to this new rule? This is the link to new h1b rule change: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/trumps-new-rules-hike-h-1b-wages-by-up-to-47-in-some-regions-5942441.html/amp
OP, I heard it was slightly less than the Level-3 salary and not the Level-2 salary. 45th-percentile sits just below the level-3. It’s not related to a master’s or bachelor’s. For example: From the Bay Area’s wage scales, pay should be slightly less than 201k (level-3) and not 170k (level-2) This is what I heard, and the official government statement only mentions percentiles and nothing else. Makes sense from their POV. But this stupid rule doesn’t make sense from anybody else’s POV.
$201k would eliminate >75% of working HW h1b professionals in bay area i think. Thats senior director or director level base salary for most HW companies
Yes, it is going to fuck us all. I heard a colleague from another team saying that they’ll increase our wages to match that and he was so happy. I was like boy, relax. The company will go into losses within 2 months. They won’t do it. WTH. I don’t know how few people are thinking that they’re going to increase the wages. But the rule will be implemented in a couple of weeks I guess. And all companies are contesting in the court. It should be overruled by then. God bless us all, dobinfg.
This rule is great, they should even raise wage levels
Bloomberg seems to be on a high with these new rules. Your comments are popping everywhere on blind. Enjoy your few seconds. The rule will get struck down soon enough
bloomberg should likely vote republican this coming election. trump administration waited 3.5 years to come up with any immigration rule change, specially at the last moment now that elections are near to get such votes. While its true that certain companies exploit h1b for lower salaries, which is why this step was thought of- its not completely unreasonable- increasing base salary req to such large amount is not affordable- companies will only have to hire outside US or similar time zone countries to save cost. The issue of shortage of native stem educated students in US is not going away due to this rule. A better way of determining wage increase % tied to education, number of years of experience, engineer level/grade, location is perhaps needed (probably court cases against this rule will fix it).. 201k base for bay area is what director/ senior director get after 15+ or 20+ years exp
Why can’t they just fkn give employment green cards so people can open more business and hire locals and put an end to this BS. Isnt America Land of the Immigrants ?
Move to 🇨🇦 boiz
American jobs. American workers.
Bottom line is, we have limited H1B every year. Let the most technical person get it. This is not full proof but better than any other existing solution. Also, we have good quantity of consulting people already on H1B. They needed to be removed while renewal. Sadly this bill would be blocked.
Let the most technical person get it - Is technical = highest paying ? What about mechanical, physics/chem/bio majors ? How are they going to compare folks in different fields ? Or will they have quota per category?
Highest paid in their domain. At least we are agree consulting needs to be fcuked
This is bad. This will force more outsourcing to offshore. This country is going downhill, and has been for the past 50 years. The greed of corporate America is backfiring and killing itself. The whole H1B program was meant to be for highly skilled, very specialized extraordinary talent that we don’t have in this country. Many of these jobs can be done by new grads that just need a little training. If government forces companies to keep most of its workforce in US then this could be very good for the US and it’s people in the future(but this will never happen because of corruption and greed).
Corporate greed sold American opportunities to the lowest, most convenient denominator. They’re killing the very own golden goose that gave them the golden egg.
imo, we need to invest more in tackling education disparities. Most people recognize teachers are underpaid and under appreciated but nothing improves. Then we turn around and ask why we need to hire talent from other countries. Maybe start with a secretary of education who has experience/interest in public education..
We all have the same questions buddy. These wage levels are ridiculously high for all fields.