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There's basically no way it threatens U.S. innovation because underpaid H1B workers are mostly at banks, insurance companies, etc. Maintenance engineers, or har
by jrs95 9y ago
There's basically no way it threatens U.S. innovation because underpaid H1B workers are mostly at banks, insurance companies, etc. Maintenance engineers, or hardly anyone for that matter, at massive corporations aren't exactly doing a lot of innovation.
- tedmiston 9y agoI'm not super familiar with how pay for H1Bs compares to citizens. It would be interesting to see some data around this.
- jrs95 9y agoMy understanding of this is that it's not much lower than other entry level pay, but they tend to get no raises or smaller raises because their immigration status is tied to their current employment so they can't easily switch jobs. Often times low cost H1B workers have been used to replace more senior people too. There was a big wave of this around the time of the last recession as a cost savings measure. I'm not super familiar with data on the topic though, that would definitely be nice to see.