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☆ Qatar World Cup: 'Our dreams never came true.' These men helped build Qatar's tournament, now they are struggling to survive.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Aimee Lewis Pramod Acharya Sugam Pokharel | Aimee Lewis | Pramod Acharya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +31 min

It will be a historic event, the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East, but one also mired in controversy. He had dreamed of watching World Cup matches from the rooftop of the hotel he had helped build. In Qatar, migrant workers can now change jobs freely without permission from their employer. However, a number of European federations have issued a joint statement saying they would campaign at the tournament on human rights and for a migrant workers center and a compensation fund for migrant workers. The motto for Qatar’s bid team in 2010 was ‘Expect Amazing.’ In many ways, this year’s World Cup has replicated that maxim.

NBC News, in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, interviewed more than 40 current and former employees of contractors at military bases. According to an NBC News analysis, at least 10 companies with substantiated trafficking violations since 2007 have received billions in new government contracts. ‘Mad scramble’Foreign workers are crucial for the more than 700 military bases with U.S. service members around the world. One company that continues to get work at Middle East bases despite past violations documented in an Army compliance agreement is Tamimi, Abdulla’s employer. Lusambu Karim, a 50-year-old Ugandan, told NBC News about trafficking violations he said he encountered working for Aegis in Afghanistan from 2018 to 2020.

☆ IBM salaries revealed: Engineers can earn nearly $200K. See how much analysts, managers, and others at the tech giant make.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Caroline Haskins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

IBM is among the oldest and largest computer companies in the world and has more than 350,000 employees. These offers must be equal to what US employees earn making them a great guide to employee salaries at the company. When Insider analyzed IBM salary data in 2021, the highest offer was to an engineering program director, earning $335,000. A technical team lead, for instance, earned $57,500 in Monroe, LA, and as much as $114,500 in Parsippany, NJ. Insider has also compiled a database of salaries across other big tech companies like Google, Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and more.

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☆ Oracle salaries revealed: See how much engineers, developers, and hundreds of other employees earn at the $202 billion database giant
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Jessica Xing | Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Database giant Oracle conducted another round of layoffs this month, Insider reported. Insider analyzed H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Oracle paid employees. The $202 billion database giant quietly conducted another round of layoffs, primarily impacting its North American Cloud Infrastructure and Technology unit, Insider reported in October. Insider combed hundreds of disclosed salaries from the office, which authorizes hiring non-US employees, then publicly releases the data. But it is a valuable guide to Oracle salaries for a variety of positions, including engineers, managers, and more.

☆ Amazon healthcare salaries revealed: See how much bioengineering and health-data roles earn as the tech giant pushes into medicine and prepares to buy One Medical
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Katherine Long | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon hired many positions in healthcare informatics last quarter, according to H-1B visa filings. The new positions include nursing-informatics specialists, who typically manage patient data, and medical laboratory technicians. But the end of Amazon Care, which failed to gain as much traction as Amazon had hoped, coincides with an expansion of Amazon's healthcare ambitions. The company announced plans in July to purchase the One Medical chain of medical clinics for $3.9 billion. Data-privacy activists have registered concerns about the company's planned acquisition of One Medical, which would give Amazon control of huge amounts of patient data.

☆ How much The New York Times pays US employees in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The New York Times has been staffing up as it seeks to expand its subscription offering. Insider analyzed public data to gauge how much the newspaper pays employees in the US. The Times has offered some US-based staffers annual salaries between $53,392 and $306,000. Insider analyzed work-visa disclosures released by the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification to see what the Times pays for certain roles. Based on the data, the Times offered from late 2019 through mid 2022 annual base salaries ranging from $53,392 to $306,000, for various roles in editorial, advertising, data, engineering, and more.

☆ New York Times pays as much as $300,000 in base salary to top talent. Here's pay data on US jobs in editorial, advertising, and more.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Colin Salao | Steven Perlberg | Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Times' news division has also expanded by hundreds in recent years and now employs about 1,700 journalists. The public data show how much the media company offered to pay foreign staffers it sought to hire in the US for jobs including editorial, data, engineering, and business-side positions. Editorial and some business employees at the Times are unionized, setting salary ranges for some positions at the company. Based on the data, the Times offered from late 2019 through the middle of 2022 annual base salaries ranging from $53,392 to $306,000 for various roles. In cases where the company submitted multiple applications for a particular job, such as a software engineer, we included the range of those wage rates.

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☆ Battery startup salaries revealed: How much Redwood, QuantumScape, and more pay the engineers they're desperate to hire
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Alexa St. John | Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The EV battery space will need to fill 10 million jobs globally by 2030. Firms like Redwood Materials, QuantumScape, and more, are searching for hundreds of workers. Battery companies are desperate for talent to meet the demand they're seeing from electric vehicle automakers — and some are paying big bucks to attract workers. Battery companies are racing to get critical materials like lithium and nickel. This need means that firms innovating all aspects of the battery value chain — including battery chemistry, materials, battery health, repurposing and more — are competing with one another to fill what the World Economic Forum expects will be 10 million jobs globally by 2030.

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☆ How much media and tech giants from Disney to TikTok pay employees in the US
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

And tech companies like TikTok have made key hires from more traditional media spheres. These are base salaries, and do not include other forms of compensation such as stock options or cash bonuses. DisneyDisney and its US streamer Hulu offered base salaries ranging from $93,150 to $242,000 per year, according to wages from 132 foreign-labor-certification applications. Most of the salaries were for streaming and tech jobs, including data scientist and software engineer roles. Most of the salaries were for data, engineering, and other tech jobs based in San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington.

☆ Palantir salaries revealed: Some engineers at the controversial analytics software company earn nearly $300,000. Here's what managers, analysts and other employees make.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Caroline Haskins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Palantir is known for its controversial contracts providing analytics software to the US government and private companies. The company doesn't disclose salary data, but US companies must share offers made on H-1B visa applications. However, US companies have to disclose offers on work-visa applications. Notably, these figures only represent base salaries, but Palantir also offers some employees additional stock grants. The logo of the data analysis company Palantir can be seen at the company's headquarters in 2018.

☆ Uber salaries revealed: See how much engineers, analysts and hundreds of other employees at the ride sharing company make
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

We analyzed hundreds of H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Uber pays employees. The ride-sharing company offered two distinguished engineers nearly $350,000 each as a base salary. As a recession looms, Uber has dramatically slowed down on hiring — even freezing hiring altogether in many departments. But salaries are also a big part of how the company pays its employees. The highest-paid people in the data are two distinguished engineers in California who were each offered $345,000, while the lowest-paid person in the data is a data analyst in Illinois who was offered $56,700.

☆ Twilio salaries revealed: Here's how much engineers, product managers, and more make at the cloud-communications company
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Jessica Xing | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

This year, despite a pandemic boom, Twilio was hit hard by tech's economic downturn. Despite an impressive pandemic boom, Twilio, like many other tech giants, got hit hard by tech's recent economic downturn. The data does not include stock grants, which can significantly increase total compensation, but it's a valuable guide to Twilio salaries for a variety of positions. Insider dug through the hundreds of disclosed salaries that represent engineers, managers, and more. The analyzed salaries come from the second quarter of 2022 and mainly represent workers in California, Washington, and Colorado.

☆ Alphabet salaries revealed: See how much Google bets like Waymo, Wing, and Intrinsic pay engineers, managers, and thousands of other employees
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Hugh Langley | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Alphabet companies such as Wing, Waymo, and Verily are hiring. Insider analyzed H-1B visa applications to learn how much Alphabet pays employees. Like Google, other Alphabet companies, such as self-driving car unit Waymo and life sciences unit Verily, slowed down hiring earlier this year, but they're still recruiting in key areas. Through the hundreds of disclosed salaries that represent engineers, managers, and more, we found out how much Alphabet is paying employees at these companies. It also doesn't account for all roles inside these companies, only those for which Alphabet hired employees on visas.

☆ Unicorn salaries revealed: How much 17 of the hottest startups like Revolut, Celonis, and Sorare pay, with base salaries as high as $472,000.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

But analysis of foreign labor hires to the US indicates how much fast-growing firms pay talent. We found European firms willing to fork out generous 6-figure base salaries for roles such as head of crypto at Revolut. The US is taking more steps towards pay transparency. Any company that hires foreign talent on specialist visas to the US must disclose compensation data. The salaries are also likely higher than what European firms might pay domestic talent.

☆ Twitter engineers can make over $300,000 in base salary: See how much analysts, managers, and other employees get paid at the social media company
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Kali Hays | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Insider analyzed hundreds of salaries paid to workers in the second quarter of this year. Twitter discloses salary data in visa applications with the US Department of Labor. And, should Twitter in the coming weeks become a private entity under Musk, Twitter workers will no longer receive grants of stock associated with public companies. One engineer hired during the second quarter is getting a salary of $332,000 and most others are being paid around $200,000 and above. See below for a complete breakdown of what Twitter agreed to pay employees in the second quarter.

☆ Facebook salaries over $1 million: See which jobs the company pays the most for and how much engineers, data scientists and hundreds of others make
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Kali Hays | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider analyzed government data to see just how much the company pays for thousands of roles. That's more than half the number of such workers the company hired in all of 2021, according to a previous analysis by Insider. The company is now conducting what some workers are referring to as "quiet layoffs," too, through new performance evaluations. Another, a product analysis manager for internationalization and product experience, is being paid $1.5 million. Those salaries are outliers, but Facebook is still often the highest-paying Big Tech company, with typical salaries between $150,000 and $250,000.

☆ Microsoft salaries revealed: See how much engineers, analysts, and thousands of other employees at the tech giant make
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sources told Insider the move was meant to stop workers from leaving to competitors like Amazon. Insider analyzed thousands of H-1B visa applications to see how much Microsoft pays employees. Microsoft employees earlier this year promised widespread raises to stop workers from leaving to competitors like Amazon and Meta. The data doesn't include stock grants that can significantly increase total compensation, but it is a valuable guide to Microsoft salaries for a variety of positions. Here's a breakdown of what Microsoft pays many other employees, though these salaries were disclosed before the promised raises.

☆ Nvidia salaries revealed: See how much engineers, managers, and hundreds of other employees at the chip-design company make as its CEO promises no layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Jacob E. Robbins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, pledged new raises and no layoffs in a recent email to employees. Insider analyzed hundreds of H-1B visa applications to see how much Nvidia pays different employees. The data does not include stock grants that can significantly increase total compensation, but it is a valuable guide to Nvidia salaries for a variety of positions. The highest-paid person in the data set is a distinguished engineer in California whom the company offered $320,000, while the lowest-paid person in the data is a public-relations specialist in California whom the company offered offered $78,582. Here's a breakdown of what Nvidia pays many other employees.

☆ Airbnb salaries revealed: See how much engineers, developers, and hundreds of other employees at the housing-rental company make
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-04 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Airbnb is one of the few companies letting employees work remotely; and it's paying them well, too. We analyzed hundreds of H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Airbnb pays employees. Every Airbnb employee included in the most recent visa data makes six figures. Earlier this year, the company announced that its 6,000 employees could continue to work remotely permanently, with no effect on their pay. The data does not include stock grants that can significantly increase total compensation, but it is a valuable guide to Airbnb salaries for a variety of positions.

☆ Amazon salaries revealed: See how much engineers, data scientists and thousands of other employees at the e-commerce and cloud giant make
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-03 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

We analyzed thousands of H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Amazon pays employees. Amazon surprised employees earlier this year when it announced big raises, more than doubling its base salary cap and boosting salary ranges for many roles. A good deal of the value of those new compensation packages was tied to Amazon stock, which has plunged more than 30% in the past six months. Insider combed data from the office, which authorizes hiring non-US employees, then publicly releases the data. Here's a breakdown of what Amazon pays many other employees.

☆ Intel salaries revealed: See how much engineers, analysts, and thousands of other employees at the chip giant make as it invests in manufacturing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Jacob E. Robbins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Insider analyzed thousands of H-1B visa applications to see how much Intel pays employees. Though Intel doesn't share how much it pays employees, it is required to disclose salary offers in work-visa applications submitted to the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification. The data doesn't include stock grants, which can significantly increase total compensation, but it is a valuable guide to Intel salaries for a variety of positions. Insider dug through the thousands of disclosed salaries that represent engineers, managers, and more. Here's a breakdown of what Intel pays many other employees.

☆ Apple salaries revealed: See how much engineers, data scientists and thousands of other employees at the tech giant make
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Apple has performed solidly in an economic slowdown that has hit other tech companies harder. We analyzed thousands of H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Apple pays employees. Apple has performed a lot better than many tech companies during this economic slowdown. The data excludes stock grants that can significantly increase total compensation, but it is a valuable guide to Apple salaries for a variety of positions. Here's a breakdown of what Apple pays many other employees.

☆ Google pays salaries as high as $1 million a year. See how much engineers, developers and thousands of other employees at the search engine company make.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Hugh Langley | Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Though Google slowed hiring in 2022, thousands of people are still joining the company. We analyzed H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Google pays employees. Google may have slowed hiring this year, but it's still recruiting in many priority areas, such as cloud computing, hardware, search, and more. Although Google does not share how much it pays employees, it is required to disclose salary offers in work-visa applications submitted to the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Here's a breakdown of what Google pays many other employees.

☆ Disney and Hulu salaries revealed: Pay data show how much the Hollywood giant recently offered for jobs across divisions
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Elaine Low | Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Disney+ accounts for 152 million subs, while Hulu has 46.2 million and ESPN+ has 22.8 million. Public work-visa data show Disney offers $93,150 to $242,000 for some jobs at Hulu and other units. Its flagship streaming service Disney+ alone accounts for more than more than 152 million subscribers, gaining on Netflix's 221 million. To see what Disney and Hulu pay for certain jobs, Insider analyzed recent work-visa disclosures. Most of the roles were tech jobs, including data scientist and software engineer roles.

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