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(Do they have a good name? E.g., stuff like the NY Times \"Upshot\" interactive data apps?[1]) Two suggestions: 1. Make the…",[63,78,89,104],{"value":64,"source":56,"evidence":65},"Data may not reflect actual pay; contract or proxy hires distort salaries",[66,70,74],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"9097062","emcrazyone","I own a company that specializes in hiring H1Bs and placing them into contract roles. The data doesn't look very accurate. For one thing, this data doesn't appear to represent…",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"9096381","spiralpolitik","The data would be more meaningful if it separated out direct hires (Company X directly hires the employee) verses proxy hires (Company X contracts Company Y for employees) as…",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"9096443","bstar77","Does this actually represent the salary of the individual or what a consulting company is paying for them, or a combination of both?",{"value":79,"source":56,"evidence":80},"Inconsistent axis scales across charts",[81,85],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"9096111","hoprocker","I am an unabashed infographic fanatic, but one thing that really throws me off here is the changing scale between graphs. I think it'd be a lot easier to flip through these tabs…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"9097252","Jugurtha","It would be better to fix the axis so that we get the info by the position of the hisogram. Example: When you're at \"Engineer\", and then you click \"Programmer\", the histogram…",{"value":90,"source":56,"evidence":91},"Bugs when switching states and fields",[92,96,100],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"9096815","simook","Ran into several bugs when switching to a state & field.",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"9096992","akgerber","There is a bug in the histogram for Vermont.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"9096108","mh-","OP: the 'administrator' button doesn't load new data, leaves previously rendered data in place.",{"value":105,"source":56,"evidence":106},"Possible privacy exposure of individual salaries in small groups",[107,111],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"9096471","eggoa","If you know the one H1Ber in Alaska, you now know their salary.",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"9096655","lnkmails","There is a privacy issue in government releasing the H1B salary data publicly. If you are a H1b worker working at a small startup, your privacy is pretty much violated. In the…",[116,123,134],{"value":117,"source":56,"evidence":118},"Compare H1B salaries with normal salaries",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"9096087","ensmotko","It'd be interesting to see how H1B salaries compare to normal salaries, but that data probably isn't publicly available, right?",{"value":124,"source":56,"evidence":125},"Adjust salaries for cost of living",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"9096094","negrit","This is not relevant: > The best city for software engineers was Menlo Park with an average salary of $130,640 The best city for software engineers should not determined on…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"9096604","juggernautq","would be interesting to factor in living cost and rank states by best-to-live-by-H1Bs.",{"value":135,"source":56,"evidence":136},"Separate direct hires from proxy hires",[137],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},[139,146],{"value":140,"source":56,"evidence":141},"Where the data came from and how accurate it is",[142],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"9096352","JeremyMorgan","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…",{"value":147,"source":56,"evidence":148},"Difference between developer and engineer titles",[149,153],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"9096424","k3fernan","Super interesting to see the pay differences between \"programmer\" vs \"developer\" vs \"engineer\". With the other titles there is either an inference of management\u002Fhierarchy…",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"9096366","arenaninja","Wow, that disparity between developer and engineer... I'm not an H1B worker, but does this mean I should start calling myself an Engineer?",[158,165],{"value":159,"source":56,"evidence":160},"salarytalk.org",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"9096568","montz1","This is pretty cool. I created a similar site http:\u002F\u002Fsalarytalk.org\u002Fsearch. I has has more charts and search capabilities for the same dataset across 2010-2014. For aggregate…",{"value":166,"source":56,"evidence":167},"visadoor.com",[168,172],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"9097348","hyperlz","Some interesting stats here too: http:\u002F\u002Fvisadoor.com\u002Fh1bvisa-by-companies-2014 http:\u002F\u002Fvisadoor.com\u002Fh1bvisa-by-states-2014 http:\u002F\u002Fvisadoor.com\u002Fh1bvisa-by-cities-2014…",{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"9097964","visadoor","A few of you have mentioned http:\u002F\u002Fwww.visadoor.com below. I am the builder of the site and really did it for my own use. If you find any bugs or need any features implemented,…",{"comments":43,"answered":18,"key":177},[178,181,184],{"id":179,"text":180},"9096100","Exactly, I was kind of surprised that the H1B data was public in the first place. But private companies usually don't release their salary info. I don't even think public…",{"id":182,"text":183},"9096109","You're right. But I had to use some metric and I thought it was interesting to show some data about cities. As an interesting point, engineers in Menlo Park earn $30k more than…",{"id":185,"text":186},"9096129","That's an unfortunate result of some brackets having zero data and my code not handling that edge case well :( Thanks for letting me 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