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What kind of salaries should H1-B-heavy jobs expect if the visa didn't exist? I'm wondering because I get the feeling that the general populace believes these
by wakkaflokka 10y ago
What kind of salaries should H1-B-heavy jobs expect if the visa didn't exist?
I'm wondering because I get the feeling that the general populace believes these positions (programming and everything related) pay pretty well. You might get the opposite feeling when browsing HN.
- timewarrior 10y agoH1 visas work like a long tail. Most of the visas are used by big consulting companies to suppress wages. Most of these jobs pay less than 65k and displace American workers because they would demand more. A small part of the visas (less than 10%) is used in the long tail by companies like Google and Facebook. They jobs pay relatively well. However because of difficulty in job mobility, the immigrant employees lose on negotiation and aren't paid we well as they could have gotten paid. At least these jobs do not displace American workers. The above companies have a lot of unfilled openings and if an American worker is available with the right skills, they would hire that person.