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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by snoman on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:01PM (#13533280)
> In reality it's abused to import cheap labor and undercut average American workers doing common work like building applications or administering systems.

Really? How much should it cost to do common work like building crud applications or administering systems? Right now, (based on all the H1-B, and similar visa holders I know, which is a good amount) it's ~2X the median household income to pay one visa holder to do it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to make $200-300K to sling crud apps and keep the lights on in a datacenter.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by dimgl on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:48PM (#13534518)
That's the point. It's to discourage employers from using H1-B visas to hire people to make CRUD apps and instead hire domestically.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by NTDF9 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:52PM (#13536646)
I think companies will just outsource crud jobs. There's enough talent outside the US. Until now, they were being brought in with H1b. Now they'll just do if from across the world.
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