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H-1B Salary Data Explorer

Details

External ID
46492896
Source
HN
Company
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Product
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Website domain
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Launched
Jan. 4, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
28
Upvotes percentile
0.7002635046113307
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Excited to share my New Year’s project.For a long time, I’ve wanted to build H-1B data directly into Levels.fyi. Every time I went looking for this data elsewhere, it was a frustrating experience to use. Most H-1B sites felt antiquated, unintuitive, cluttered with ads, or just overwhelming to use. The data was there, but it wasn’t usable, and definitely not pleasant to explore.So out of that frustration, I decided to build the H-1B data experience I personally wanted to use. Right into Levels.fyi.https://levels.fyi/h1b/Some other pages I'm excited about:Wage Heatmap: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/map/wages/Company H-1B Footprints: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/map/company/Highest Paying H-1B Jobs: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/jobs/Top H-1B Cities: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/city/Top Company Sponsors: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/sponsors/Would love any feedback, it's definitely still a work in progress.

Enrichment

Theme
financial and labor market data tools
Vertical
HR & recruiting
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
h-1b salary data explorer
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a standard data exploration web app displaying public US Department of Labor LCA/H-1B salary disclosure datasets with search and filtering.

Discussion

9 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Levels.fyi

Concerns raised: Data accuracy issues - salary figures appear inflated or incorrectly entered, Incomplete search/data doesn't match heatmap visualization, DOL LCA filings have data entry errors and cleanliness problems, Salary data capturing upper range rather than actual salary

Feature requests: Aggregate stats summary at the top of the page, Direct page navigation/jump to specific page number, Outlier detection and removal or flagging feature

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 60 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #18 of 61 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.