Off topic, but that's partly the reason why I'm fairly annoyed with all the "US company is hiring H1B to repress wage" news. It seems to me that the lower wage

Off topic, but that's partly the reason why I'm fairly annoyed with all the "US company is hiring H1B to repress wage" news. It seems to me that the lower wage can be easily explained by the fact that H1B visa holders tends to be on the younger side (it's not really a nice experience to be on one, and I don't expect mid career programmer to be interested in it). If FB can save 100k per H1B employees, that comes to ~18mils a year. Last year, their revenue was 8 billions.