It's a dichotomy. There are well qualified tech workers who get H1Bs and high paying jobs and there are body shops. There are companies that have tech compone

It's a dichotomy. There are well qualified tech workers who get H1Bs and high paying jobs and there are body shops. There are companies that have tech components who want to outsource for example. One of the reasons to enforce higher pay is to enforce the former. There's supposed to be gov't monitoring of salaries etc... to check for abuse and also public transparency so that authorized workers can see their value. These offers are supposed to be publicly posted in the office and you can also see official H1B public filings to see how your salary matches official offers (although the online data will have a job title and not necessarily the job specific role/criteria that the public posting in the workplace would have).