Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 141
fill a 100k job with an h1-b worker and only pay them 50k, it's still back to profit after 2 years
That one is actually illegal. The minimum on a H-1B salary is $60,000. But there is an additional requirement that the salary has to be at or higher than the prevailing wage for the job in question.
Government: So I see that your H-1B jobs are all for "Computer Programmer (I)" and your U.S. hires are all for "Software Engineer (III)" or "(IV)".
Company: Yes. We haven't had much luck in hiring level one programmers here in the U.S. We put the jobs out there, but nobody is applying.
Prevailing wage for the job doesn't mean what you think it does. A bunch of sleazy outsourcing firms made sure of that.