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Originally Posted by Rockin' Flames
No offense but you don't know our personal circumstances so you can't say for a fact that she is paying those premiums upfront by accepting a lower salary. She chose no such thing. I'm sure that some companies do this but not all of them so you really can't use that big paintbrush for everything. The salary she is receiving is what she would expect to receive plus her employer paid for her visa & green card (which is in process).
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Would you agree that the 6.5% of payroll tax your employer pays for Social Security would have gone to your wage if the gov't didn't mandate that premium to cover SS?
To do otherwise, would be bad business. Do you really believe for profit companies (or any organization) operate by paying a 100K salary then factor in another ~$6K for SS after the fact? Or more likely, pay you $94K knowing there will be an added cost for the payroll tax.
Of course, everything is negotiable but healthcare is part of overall compensation for every company in the US. So I doubt she negotiated for specific health care benefits. She was given the same a la carte menu as everyone else in the organization and picked one that worked for her situation.
I could see how the green card is added compensation and not offered to everyone a la carte but healthcare is employee based in the US and companies do factor that into the cost of doing business just like factoring salaries and the rest of the benes.