US DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN WORKERS

Tech companies, which depend on foreign guest workers for workforce, according to the US Labor Department, will be left vulnerable if the Trump administration tightens a visa programme for skilled workers. However, Silicon Valley titans tend to pay guest workers a higher wage than the outsourcing companies that most heavily rely on the programme, which could work to their benefit. Here is a look:

Foreign workers on H1b visas make up more than 15% of the workforce | Foreign workers on H1b visas make up less than 15% of the workforce Number of foreign workers Average pay in tech firms

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95,815 30, 530 25, 545 23,028 17,669 9,620 9,589 7,679 3,339 3,256

Cognizant Wipro Infosys Apple Tata IBM Microsoft Amazon Facebook Google Facebook Google Microsoft Apple Amazon IBM Infosys Cognizant Wipro Tata

145,028 131,918 129,103 128,423 117,004 82,391 81,662 75, 641 72,794 67,950