[Moose4]

"There is little evidence high skilled foreign nationals on H-1B visas are in general paid less than their American counterparts," the report said.

I call bullshit. I've been in the IT business for twenty-three years and I've SEEN it happen. Know how they do it? Trickery.

One example from a former employer: They wanted to hire a database programmer. Most of the other people in the office who could do that work were pay grade 13 (senior) or 14 (lead). The job was listed, as all such H-1B jobs had to be, but it was listed at pay grade 10 (junior). The job's tasks and breadth of responsibility were comparable to someone several pay grades higher...but that didn't matter. The company could say, "See? We're paying this imported grade 10 junior programmer the same as all of our American grade 10 junior programmers!" Perfectly legal.

}:-)4

[nickcarraway]

A lot of the company’s I’ve worked at wouldn’t hire H1-B’s because they were too expensive. It’s about $20,000 grand in legal costs up front. What I think is costing more job is outsourcing them overseas.

[packrat35]

Yes, I agree. But just watch, some of the free traders on FR will come along and defend this BS.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

They have other tricks as well. They only have to make a good faith effort to find a citizen willing to do the job.

So if they do a few phone interviews that don't go so well. Or even better, if they require all sorts of skills that no one human can hope to have, and only desperate H1-B folks are willing to lie about, then they can hire H1-B's at will.