There will always be unscrupulous companies trying to game the system, you just need to sue them into complying. Auctioning is generally the right idea, auction

There will always be unscrupulous companies trying to game the system, you just need to sue them into complying. Auctioning is generally the right idea, auction and make kickbacks illegal with regulation etc. My intuition if you auction 85,000 slots in US H1b, the average H1b salary will be around 250,000$. As you reduce the slots, the average will keep going higher. Reducing or increasing the slots can depend on the labor need for the economy.