> Forget about doctors and nurses in rural areas Actually, you need to invert that. Doctors, at least, make more in rural areas than they do in urban areas.

> Forget about doctors and nurses in rural areas Actually, you need to invert that. Doctors, at least, make more in rural areas than they do in urban areas. The estimations vary, but they're in the 5-30% more than their urban counterparts range. The average wage for internal medicine doctors in urban areas (as an aggregate) is still above $208,000. It's actually roughly right, imo, to prevent depressing doctors' wages. It's right around the average, so you're paying above average rates to get an H1B, which is the intended purpose of the program isn't it? The idea being that it drives up salaries for those jobs, encouraging more people to train to do them.