Why is the US government giving half a million jobs that pay $200k+ to foreign workers on visas when the median annual wage in the US is $48k. Most of these workers do not have special training or education that an American citizen could not acquire if given the right training program.
Definitely interesting. We had an issue in Australia with 457 visas back in 2014. Where claims of pay were disputed when a whistleblower showed 200 white-collar 457 visa workers, about half of whom were Korean nationals aged under 30, were clocking up more than 84 hours a week.
They were employed by the contractor Samsung C&T at Gina Rinehart’s mine and were being paid the equivalent of $16 an hour for what should have been much higher paying jobs.
I’d love to see the stats on this.
Average H1-B salary by state:
https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/work-state/
These are salaries not including equity, which is usually the same or more per year as the salary itself.
USCIS estimated there were 583,420 foreign nationals on H-1B visas as of September 30, 2019.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Why is the US government giving half a million jobs that pay $200k+ to foreign workers on visas when the median annual wage in the US is $48k. Most of these workers do not have special training or education that an American citizen could not acquire if given the right training program.
Definitely interesting. We had an issue in Australia with 457 visas back in 2014. Where claims of pay were disputed when a whistleblower showed 200 white-collar 457 visa workers, about half of whom were Korean nationals aged under 30, were clocking up more than 84 hours a week.
They were employed by the contractor Samsung C&T at Gina Rinehart’s mine and were being paid the equivalent of $16 an hour for what should have been much higher paying jobs.