I'm wondering where the data came from and how accurate it it is.
"In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers."
Ok so here I am assuming you mean 38 new H1B engineers were hired in 2012. There is no way that could be true, I nearly hired and processed that many H1Bs personally in 2012. I was working with several others with similar or higher numbers. And that's just one company in Oregon.
Not trying to nitpick with anecdotal data, but it just seems wrong to me.
So looking at the LCA_FY2012 data on the Foreign Labor Cert government website, it purports to show individual records for each H1-B application, listed by employer, job title, wage, etc.
There is an Employer address, and then there are two separate fields for Working Location. So part of the problem is are we looking at where the company is registered, or where the employee is physically working?
A second issue is in the 'LCA_CASE_SOC_NAME' - the job title / category. I found 27 categories which are reasonably related to computer software field, including things like 'Graphics Design', 'Computer and Information Systems Managers', 'Network Systems and Data Communications Analyst', etc. If you filter on just the specific 'Computer Software Engineers, Applications' category you will see much less.
The 2012 file shows decisions made 10/1/2011 thru 9/28/2012. If I look at data for 'Employer State' of OR, and filter on 27 categories which seem computer/software related, then I see 321 records. If I look at data for 'WorkLoc1_State' for OR with the same categories, I can see 1557 records.
You can download it yourself here [1] although it's 70MB and takes several minutes to pull from their servers.
Does anyone know if this reporting is official base salary or if its total earnings including bonuses. In NY especially that's gonna make a pretty noticeable difference to the averages I'd say.
No sure which of the above they're using for this infographic (I know the actual base salary has to be >= prevailing wage, but is it public?), but when you include stock grants / bonuses / 401k matching, my total compensation is well above both of those numbers.
H1B is a federal corporate welfare program to address a perceived lack of homegrown IT talent. Its is a regulated and public service. Data like who is hiring and at what salaries are public. Employers do not have a right to secret salaries when using the H1B program. Download the data below and view the RatePer field for salary info:
There is a public available database of all H1B visa recipients. Includes the company, hire date, salary, etc. It might be mandated by US federal law. I don't have the link on hand at this time.
Hmmm... was the Great Melting Pot created just by Native Americans? Not that I have anything against them, but wasn't the whole point of the USA to be a giant blender for people of all nations? How do you think that happened? By only hiring locals?
"In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers."
Ok so here I am assuming you mean 38 new H1B engineers were hired in 2012. There is no way that could be true, I nearly hired and processed that many H1Bs personally in 2012. I was working with several others with similar or higher numbers. And that's just one company in Oregon.
Not trying to nitpick with anecdotal data, but it just seems wrong to me.