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The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent
How DHS’s H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US-trained talent
would actually gain under the rule, receiving 8% more visas, because they systematically register mid-career workers classified at higher Wage Levels despite paying comparatively low salaries. Using it as a prioritization tool produces perverse results: rewarding outsourcing firms and older workers in lower-skill occupations while penalizing genuinely high-wage, high-skill talent, especially students trained in the US. Their business model relies on flooding the lottery with registrations for mid-career staff in routine roles, who often qualify for higher wage levels despite the relatively low actual pay.
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