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Or give the visas to the jobs with the highest 85,000 salaries instead of using a lottery.
by wsha 9y ago
Or give the visas to the jobs with the highest 85,000 salaries instead of using a lottery.
- anarazel 9y agoSo H1Bs would end up only working in NYC, Bay Area etc and only for the big players. Not good either.
- CriticalSection 9y agoI guess they'll just have to settle for (horrors!) American workers.
- anarazel 9y agoMeh. If H1B were reshaped to actually be for specialist workers as it was intended (at least by some), then that's a lot easier said than done. I got to the US on a temporary work visa (not H1B because of loosing the lottery), and I'd find positions for somebody with my and a bunch of other specializations several times over. By auctioning based on salary you're preferring areas with absurd costs of living - which is a) not where you necessarily need to get more people making the problem worse b) reinforcing economic inequality between areas of the country. If there's a company needing some specialist somewhere with a saner cost of living, and they tried to find such a specialist, offering above market wages, what exactly is the benefit of not them having to pay twice or thrice the effective salary of somebody in SF/NYC?
- int_19h 9y agoYou can always adjust salaries for cost of living in the area to have a more apples to apples comparison.