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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by duxup on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:59PM (#18294209)
I always thought H1B should simply be $100k or $120k+ plus jobs only.

I was looking through online records and found folks being brought in for sub 50k jobs that looked like low level ... customer service roles.

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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by dx87 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:23PM (#18294448)
That's what I thought too, then I saw my company use an H1B to fill a junior web developer job at 70k in the DC/Metro area, which is basically the area's going rate for a 0 experience, straight out of college software developer.
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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by duxup on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:58PM (#18295821)
Man, if someone needs an entry level web dev fast... there are so many bootcampers available. Granted the quality varies wildly (I'm a bootcamper myself, I know those people) but they are easily found.
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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by shade_zzz on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:22PM (#18295538)
That seems fishy, the minimum required salary to apply for h1b was 60k/year till the beginning of the year, and there was a bill that was introduced which proposed raising it to 90k/year.
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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by duxup on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:31PM (#18295598)
Straight up it was sub 50k listed in the database...

I'll see if I can find it later.

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