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		Muchi on April 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Protip for salary seekers: H1-B filings are public I wish they didn't disclose both the company name and the title since some companies create a title just for one person. It takes no effort to figure out who's making what, myself included -_- Open data / Gov 2.0 and that whole spiel is great but it'd be nice if privacy was given a second thought, even if it's the data of non-citizens

cma on April 14, 2011 [–]

In most states you can look up any state-employee's salary by name.

Muchi on April 14, 2011 | [–]

Right, but they publish the salaries of all employees. If they published the salaries of just the out-of-state workers, we have a similar scenario.

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