This tool lets you search salary data for thousands of foreign-born tech workers

Fusion reports:

Foreign-born workers living in the United States on H1-B visas make up a significant portion of the tech industry’s engineering ranks. Now, a new tool lets you search government data to find out how much those workers are getting paid.

A tool called U.S. Visa Explorer appeared on Hacker News on Friday. The tool searches government records for Labor Condition Applications (LCA), a piece of paperwork that prospective employers must file on behalf of workers hoping to get H1-B visas. These applications are publicly available, and include the names of workers’ labor lawyers, as well as their salaries and the companies hoping to hire them. (The workers’ names aren’t listed, but at a small or mid-sized start-up, it presumably wouldn’t be hard to figure out who was whom.)

Gulp.