During the Corona epidemic, major American technology companies achieved impressive growth, large profits, and rapid recruitment of skills and competencies.
The technology industry association CompTIA reported in early July that the sector had seen job growth in 10 of the previous 12 months, a notable performance given last year's shutdowns.
He added that technology companies added more than 80,000 workers in the United States during the first half of 2021.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, employed more than 4,000 employees in the second quarter alone.
Overall, more than 300,000 open tech jobs were posted last June, including the most in-demand software and application developers, IT support professionals, project managers, systems engineers and systems analysts.
Jobs in emerging technology, such as artificial intelligence, accounted for more than a quarter of all open jobs.
Companies are required to disclose information including salaries (or in some cases salary ranges) when hiring foreign workers under the H1-B US work visa program.
So, to get a sense of current salaries in the industry, Business Insider analyzed disclosure data from the US Bureau of Foreign Employment Certification to permanent and temporary foreign workers to find out what companies pay employees in key roles, including engineers, designers and salespeople.
Google software engineers make more than $300,000 a year
Google is often described as one of the best places to work with the right financial incentives.
With information provided by Business Insider, a software engineer was offered $353,000, the vice president of engineering could get $475,000, and the senior vice president recently received an annual salary of $650,000.
Google's Cloud Business is also building its team aggressively, trying to catch up with its biggest cloud competitors, Amazon, Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.
A software engineer at Google gets $353,000, and the vice president of engineering can get 475,000 (social media)
$185,000 annually for Amazon Cloud Solutions Engineers
Amazon's Cloud Business Unit continued to recruit technical and commercial talent to support its dominant cloud computing business.
Business Insider reviewed more than 200 work visas that Amazon's cloud unit applied for from January to June to reveal how much it paid to software developers, data scientists, marketers, salespeople, business analysts, and more.
The highest-paid employees, according to that data, could make as much as $185,000 in base salary.
Apple marketing employees earn $325,000 a year
Apple darkens aggressive advertising to market its products, and marketing efforts are integral to the company's success, as the iPhone maker always draws attention with its cinematic marketing campaigns.
The company visas focused on a range of well-paid marketing jobs, with one marketing director earning $240,000, and another marketing manager earning $325,000.
Microsoft
Business Insider analyzed more than 1,400 Microsoft foreign worker visas in 2020 to find the highest paying jobs.
The highest salary for a channel sales manager was $250,000 a year.
In internal Microsoft surveys obtained by Business Insider, 55 percent of employees in 2020 said their pay, bonus, and common rights were competitive with similar jobs at other companies, down 10 percent from a survey conducted in 2017.
55% of Microsoft employees said that their salaries, bonuses, and common rights were competitive compared to other companies (Reuters)
Uber salaries
Although Uber has gone through rounds of job cuts in recent years, many of the new full-time jobs that Uber is advertising are competing with the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley.
Senior engineers can earn salaries in excess of $200,000 a year, data scientists can make close to $150,000, and senior product managers can make about $190,000 or more, excluding any stock or bonus.
Intel engineers
Intel is grappling with slowing revenue growth and increased competition from Taiwan Semiconductor, AMD, Nvidia and others.
It also faces a shortage of semiconductors, while high-profile customers such as Apple design their own chips.
For this, Intel relies on scientists, researchers, managers, marketers, and various functions of software and hardware engineers.
IBM employees make $335,000
Under CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM is trying to reinvent itself for the era of cloud computing, hitherto dominated by Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba and Google.
IBM's 2019 purchase of open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion was a defining moment when the company made a big bet on hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence.
Part of IBM's reinvention includes increasing its 350,000 employee base, adding talent in cloud engineering, hybrid cloud, and artificial intelligence, as well as in areas such as strategy, consulting, and business analysis.
Business Insider analyzed 241 work visas submitted by IBM since January to see what it pays to engineers, business analysts, consultants, digital strategists and more.
It has found that IBM employees can earn salaries of up to $335,000 annually.
From the previous information, it is clear that professions in the technology sector have not been affected by the Corona pandemic, but on the contrary, the numbers indicate a steady growth in employment and even wages.