Posted on 08/19/2017 7:53:01 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
U.S. employers planned to pay high-skilled foreign workers with H-1B visas a median salary of $80,000 a year in fiscal year 2016, up from about $69,000 a decade earlier, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data.
This is the first time the U.S. government has made salary information about H-1B applicants publicly available. Most H-1B applicants get approved for visas, so the data provide a window into the salaries of high-skilled foreign workers employed in the United States.
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Trump. But he needs DeVos doing more than running around fighting about charter schools with NEA union thugs.
And what % of that is shipped back to the lands of origin, and thus kept out of the US economy?
Americans are making $135k for the same work. In Silicon Valley proper they are making $160k for that same work.
Still undercutting Americans.
With the official CPI inflation rate, $69,000 in 2006 is equal to $84,300 in 2016, so H1B wages aren’t even keeping up with inflation. Or they are, but more low end employees are being brought in rather than the high level experts the companies claim they need.
Years ago an acquaintance was complaining that illegals hired for yard work were making $10/hour under the table (when the minimum wage was less than $8); on top of that, they wouldn’t take a half day’s work - they didn’t want to miss out on an afternoon’s wages.
Whatever skill level, the immigrant can always be paid less than the American worker - and while sponsored the H-1B can be forced to work weekends, etc.. When they become permanent legal residents, the company can just turn them over for more Asians.
There is no justification for H-1B visas.
They were making 100K+ before Y2K.
IT Salaries have really gone up for citizens, atleast for me. I doubled my contract rate in 2 yrs. I am still pinching its true. Now paid more than Surgeons salary.
Now citizens are making $260K
H1B rates are very low. Majority of them come through agents in India. Indian agents takes major cut.
I have seen these guys want to high someone overseas on an H1B will make the job requirements so high and specific there may be only 1 or 2 people in the US that would meet these requirements.
Then they turn around and hire someone overseas after dropping the requirements where almost anyone in the US would meet it.
Then they tell everyone including INS they couldn’t find anyone qualified domestically.
Give her specific directions/areas to focus on.
Try finding highly skilled oil and gas automation and Instrumentation electricians.
I was down running a job in Nashville last year. I couldn’t find skilled Americans to hire. There’s no national standard or anything either.
There is very high demand for my field and many could benefit from guys like me teaching them.
It’s also a very high paying field, so no Americans are being undercut.
Outside of the IT/silicon valley sector, wages for skilled technical workers are declining due to inflation, health insurance hikes, and downward pressure on corporations from investors/shareholders.
This is great if you make your living in the financial sector, but not so great if you work anywhere else.
Jobs Americans just won’t do.
If true, a good illustration of the lack of skilled US workers.
I toured the Robotics Technology Park in Tanner, Alabama yesterday. Specifically the Robotics Maintenance Training Center.
I am a 25 year manufacturing engineer (mostly aerospace), and I can personally say that this place had me in drool mode through the whole hour+ tour.
...the place is totally tax-funded and intended to grow the tech industry in Al. and they’re doing an outstanding job IMHO.
www.alabamaRTP.org
Silicon Valley - Making Foreign Countries Great Again
I have heard the same.
We need to end H1B. Period. We do not need these people here taking jobs U.S. citizens could be doing.
As retribution to all the virtue-signalling CEOs who abandoned him this past week, Trump should pull the plug on the H-1B program and ship all foreigners currently holding one in the US back to their country of origin.
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