One of the reasons why the economy is down the tubes.

FYI IT worker not only compete with guest workers, and off shoring (where you could live like a king on the taxes Americans pay) but also with illegal aliens.


New CS Grads’ Wages Down 9%
January 23, 2015
Norm Matloff

I’ve often cited data from NACE, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a widely-respected organization that tracks the salaries of new graduates. I believe most universities are members. It has always shown in the past few years that Computer Science graduate salaries have basically been flat — up 2% one year, down 3% the next. But the current figures show the biggest one-year change I can ever recall seeing — and it is downward.

The 2014 mean starting salary for new CS bachelor’s degree grads was $67,300, according to NACE. But the organization’s projection for 2015 is only $61,287. If that projection holds, it will be a drop of 9%.

Yet the tech industry continues to say, “We’re desperate to hire.” And Congress continues to believe them; so does President Obama.

As I’ve said, the new grads still have it pretty good. No, they are NOT all immediately being snapped up by employers, but their situation is still far better than those who are 10 or 15 years out of school. I’ve written about this many times, but I direct your attention to an article in Venturebeat, sarcastically titled “Disposable Employees May Be the Tech Industry’s Greatest Achievement.” Lots of interesting layoff data in there.

The industry would counter, of course, that those being laid off don’t have the background to work on the latest technology. I’ve explained before why that’s a red herring — the short answer is that if only young new grads have that background, how is it that they acquired that knowledge from old guys like me? — but again, Congress believes it (or claims to).

https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/2015/01...s-wages-down-9/


Link to the Venturebeat article:
Disposable employees may be tech industry’s greatest achievement
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/dispos...st-achievement/


Some related remarks by Jeff Sessions:
Anti-H-1B senator to head immigration panel
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Sessions, late Thursday, issued a statement about his new role as immigration subcommittee chairman, and said the committee "will give voice to those whose voice has been shut out,” and that includes “the voice of the American IT workers who are being replaced with guest workers."

Sessions last week accused the tech industry of perpetuating a "hoax" by claiming there is a shortage of qualified U.S. tech workers.

"The tech industry's promotion of expanded temporary visas -- such as the H-1B -- and green cards is driven by its desire for cheap, young and immobile labor," wrote Sessions, in a memo he sent last week to fellow lawmakers.

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/287...tion-panel.html