If you check the data for San Fransisco you can still find many people taking jobs well below 100k a year. https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=&city=san+fra

If you check the data for San Fransisco you can still find many people taking jobs well below 100k a year. https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=&city=san+francisco&year=2021 https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=&city=san+francisco&y... Low income in some areas of San Fransisco is roughly ~$95k a year for a family of 4. Minimum wage for the area $37k a year. Some of these H1B jobs are roughly 2x to 3x Minimum wage (in jobs that require 40-70 hours per week). These are not pay levels for in demand with no local availability of employee jobs, these are people taking poverty level jobs.