[objclxt]

Those self-reporting spreadsheets aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.

FAANG companies are not hiring H1-B's because it's cheaper. I have been a hiring manager at a couple of FAANG companies, and I can tell you it's just not something we cared about.

The only thing I cared about was finding the most qualified people for the team. I had headcount to fill, and it wasn't like that headcount had one salary band marked "For Citizens" and another marked "For H1-Bs". The compensation systems at FAANGs are for the most part formulaic.

If FAANG want cheap engineering labor they outsource and use contractors, simple as. And it's those companies - the Infosys and Wipros of the world - that are arguably are the biggest abusers of H1-B.

[TuringNYC]

From what I understand, the H1-B salaries are public, and reported by many websites, such as: https://h1bdata.info/index.php

However, curious -- do these include stock grants, etc? I wonder if the posted numbers are only salary and not TC?

[renewiltord]

I've been on that list before. Here are some truths for that for which I have ground truth to compare to (my W-2):

* It's base alone - no bonus, no stock

* It's base at the time you get on the visa - so mine was two years and some 80k out of date near the end

* My employer at the time used a standard letter for the four or so of us so we all have the same base listed but I know we didn't have the same base. It looks like it was the lowest value. Presumably they just kept the thing that was working.