> These workers aren't uniquely skilled, engineering grand masters, but are rank-and-file IT often with bachelor's degrees and supplementary on-the-job training

> These workers aren't uniquely skilled, engineering grand masters, but are rank-and-file IT often with bachelor's degrees and supplementary on-the-job training. But their salaries often come to $100,000 or more, leaving them vulnerable to lower-cost imported workers. Okay, but if they aren't skilled and no shortage exists then why aren't companies able to find cheaper US based graduates? > Employers are legally required to pay visa holders the "local prevailing wage" for their jobs, but enforcement is porous. "It is extraordinarily easy to pay an H-1B worker much less than an American worker," Hira observed; the trick lies in how the job is defined So fix this. > Evidence is ample that the very claim of a STEM shortage in the U.S. is phony. Salzman noted that "overall, our colleges and universities graduate twice the number of STEM graduates as find a job each year." The mismatch is especially stark in the biomedical field. There, according to a 2014 paper by experts from UC San Francisco, Harvard and Princeton, "the training pipeline produces more scientists than relevant positions in academia, government, and the private sector are capable of absorbing." Wow. That's compelling evidence since everyone known STEM degrees are entirely interchangeable. How many H1-Bs are given out to biomedical graduates?