[Tinyyy]

I make $400k/yr as an immigrant, and boy do I feel exploited :)

Edit: Sorry for being sarcastic and flexing here. I’m friends with many IMO and IOI medalists (per the paper) who are studying/working in the US and I think it’s an amazing opportunity for them. Where I grew up in Singapore, tech salaries are way lower, and as a new grad I think I easily 3xed what I could’ve made back there. I’m not representative of all immigrants but I believe I can represent a class of highly skilled immigrants who appreciate the opportunity. It’s extremely insulting to call people like me exploited, because the next line is - I’m bringing down your wages.

[arkitaip]

Imagine thinking you are representative of US immigrants.

[nostrademons]

The paper is specifically talking about highly skilled immigrants in math & science, though. Their dataset was a few thousand IMO gold medalists. Grandparent poster's experience is a lot more representative of this sample than a random agricultural worker who crosses the Rio Grande.

[terse_malvolio]

Doing what?

[papandada]

Post history seems to say he won a trading competition. To whoever downvoted this did you think I needed to add "so presumably he works in something along those lines"?

[dkdbejwi383]

How much of that do you spend on health insurance?

[cdash]

Probably almost nothing. People who make salaries like that also have incredibly good insurance that is also mostly paid by their company.

[esoterica]

Probably $0? People usually get health insurance on top of their reported compensation.

[cccc4all]

Could you make that or higher amount in your former country? If not, why not?

[jokethrowaway]

The US did good economically in the past couple of centuries.

There's significantly more money in the USA than in a lot of other countries.

Even accounting for the ridiculously high taxes and the work-80hrs culture, the high salaries can be worth it for some people.