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by oh-kumudo 3158 days ago
If anything, coders aren't the ones who are under paid in US. Their salary are HIGH.

To be the devil's advocate, the H1B visa is created specifically for the purpose to bring down the cost of employers, by opening up to global talent supply, no matter under what disguise. And software industry seems to me is exactly the sector what H1B is intended to apply on.
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wolfgke 3158 days ago
The interesting metric is "salary - costs of living". Since the costs of living are very high in SF, they are not paid that well.
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oh-kumudo 3158 days ago
Not every programmers are living in SF.

And I do think it is misleading to say programmers' salary is not high because of the cost-of-living. Cost-of-living applies on EVERYONE, there are many waiters/drivers/artists living in SF, and I don't believe they get additional rebate because they are not doing computer work.

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