Work visa changes

Lolz. In theory, H-1B beneficiaries need to be paid at least the median income for their occupation + county. In practice, that’s hard to enforce because employers have room to fudge on the paperwork.

For example, my own company sponsors H-1B visas for programmers & statistical analysts. Minimum requirement Bachelor’s degree, many have a Master’s or PhD. On the visa paperwork, they get classified as “social science research assistants”, which gives them a prevailing wage determination of about $35,000. With a more appropriate occupation classification, the prevailing wage would be somewhere between $70,000 and $120,000, which few of them are actually paid…