Re:Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare
by seibelj on Friday July 24, 2015 @02:46PM
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The problem is that "market price" is extremely malleable, and it's easy enough to tweak the job title slightly in order to change what the person is being paid.
As I said, there are exceptions, but in general H1B is a mechanism for importing cheap labor.
Re:Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare
by hga on Friday July 24, 2015 @02:31PM
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Hiring H-1B for cost reasons is not possible.
Then explain why, in 2001 while working for Lucent, a more qualified for the job H-1B engineer was paid 45K to my 80K?
While I hear from people like you and other sources that there are H-1Bs being paid what they're worth, all the cases I actually know something about are paid significantly less than market or the like (e.g. too many cases of more expensive, experienced US citizens and permanent residents being replaced by cheaper H-1Bs; we've been reading in the general news about some particularly notorious cases of this happening en masse lately at that California utility and Disney).
Re:Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare
by dirkdk on Friday July 24, 2015 @02:50PM
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Yeah, I also do not agree with this. While there is definitely a certain minimum, you are not going to be paid top dollar on an H1B. More importantly, you have way less leverage for salary negotiations, so as an immigrant you keep at the same salary for years.
Hiring H-1B for cost reasons is not possible. It is not allowed to pay less than market price and the government audits it. My first H-1B job paid $75k in '97 dollars (e.g. north of $120k now) and it was more than typical market value. Full bennies, too.