Facebook and Google offered almost $2 million to some H-1B software engineers this ye
Facebook and Google offered almost $2 million to some H-1B software engineers this year
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August 24, 2020
American companies are so dependent on the talent that comes to the US on H-1B visas that they’re willing to pay top dollar for them.
Facebook and Google dominated the top-paid jobs among H-1B applicants in software engineering roles in the first eight months of this year, according
h1data.info. The site indexes the Labor Condition Application (
LCA) disclosure data—required for H-1B applications—from the
US department of labor (DOL).
One Facebook employee being paid $2 million (Rs15 crore) had their application denied but another being paid over $1.9 million was approved.
Silicon Valley bigwigs have always relied on H-1B workers to bridge the skills gap in America’s tech sector. In 2016,
more than 15% of Facebook’s employees were H-1B visa-holders. Despite the Donald Trump administration cracking down on the programme, both Facebook and Google featured amidst the giants who
had 99% of their H-1B applications approved.
Of course, these are anomalies in the most popular H-1B profession. The average salary for 190,000 software engineers applying for H-1B visas was just over $100,000.
Job titles with most H-1B filings in 2020
| Job Title |
Number of H-1B Filings |
Average Salary |
|---|
| Software engineer |
190,015
190,015
|
$104,271
$104,271
|
| Programmer analyst |
177,289
177,289
|
$68,986
$68,986
|
| Software developer |
122,438
122,438
|
$85,569
$85,569
|
| Systems analyst |
44,101
44,101
|
$73,409
$73,409
|
| Senior software engineer |
42,462
42,462
|
$120,197
$120,197
|
Quartz | qz.com Data: h1bdata.info
Besides software engineers, there were also H-1B workers in some other roles that cashed massive cheques at both behemoths.
Top salaries for software engineers in 2020's H-1B filings
| Company |
Base salary |
Locations |
Case status |
|---|
| Facebook |
$2,000,000
$2,000,000 |
Redmond, Washington |
❌ |
| Facebook |
$1,940,668
$1,940,668 |
Menlo Park, California |
✅ |
| Google |
$1,290,000
$1,290,000 |
Mountain View, California |
❌ |
| Google |
$353,000
$353,000
|
Sunnyvale, California |
✅ |
| Google |
$350,000
$350,000
|
Mountain View, California |
✅ |
| Google |
$350,000
$350,000
|
Mountain View, California |
✅ |
| Google |
$350,000
$350,000
|
Mountain View, California |
✅ |
| Facebook |
$299,723
$299,723
|
Menlo Park, California |
✅ |
| Google |
$295,000
$295,000
|
Sunnyvale, California |
✅ |
| Google |
$290,000
$290,000
|
Sunnyvale, California |
✅ |
| Facebook |
$288,616
$288,616
|
Menlo Park, California |
✅ |
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