There are provisions in place to make sure employers are paying their workers the prevailing wage and not replacing American workers. However, a giant loophole

There are provisions in place to make sure employers are paying their workers the prevailing wage and not replacing American workers. However, a giant loophole makes companies paying $60,000 and above per employee – or hiring employees with master's degrees – exempt from this rule. An author of the 1990 Act that created the H-1B program, Bruce Morrison, told The Atlantic it was "a dastardly deed," and he blamed lobbyists for the caveat. The caveat is greatly relevant since more than half the approved petitions in 2014 had master's degrees or higher making it perfectly legal for them to be paid less than an American worker they were replacing. https://www.investopedia.com/news/h1b-visa-issue-explained-msft-goog/ https://www.investopedia.com/news/h1b-visa-issue-explained-m...