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What about industries such as design, crafts or acting? They also hire H1Bs but cannot afford as high salaries as software engineering firms.
by product50 14y ago
What about industries such as design, crafts or acting? They also hire H1Bs but cannot afford as high salaries as software engineering firms.
- PeterisP 14y agoH1B is not designed to bring in affordable workers, but to bring in workers that USA doesn't have. If you can only afford to pay $40.000, and no americans want to do that job at that price, then tough luck, you need to pay more to motivate people to train and learn the many years needed for your profession X; instead of bringing in workers at wages that demotivate americans to train for profession X, damaging the skilled labor supply for the future years. Or you can hire a beginner with potential and train him yourself - that result would also further the goals of H1B program by getting more people with those qualifications. But if you really, really need that unicorn-rarity specialist NOW, then you can pay for that; and $100k salaries (and much larger) are actually paid for top-rated designers, craftsmen, artists and actors.