This makes sense from a distance. Such employees are supposed to be specialists, not hired for the purpose of undercutting wages. I'm not in the bay area, but i

This makes sense from a distance. Such employees are supposed to be specialists, not hired for the purpose of undercutting wages. I'm not in the bay area, but if you're bringing in a specialist from another country because you can't find one here, this sounds like the sort of wage that person ought to have. Whether this restriction makes sense in the first place is a different question, but this does sound like it fits the spirit of the h1-b. I'd be curious to hear an opposing claim on this as I don't know a great deal about it and wonder if I'm missing something.