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dominotw on Feb 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Fix Tech’s H-1B Problem

> if a US citizen working at Facebook makes 180k, and the foreign worker makes 150k, that H-1B should cost 30k

There are already prevailing wage restrictions, you can't pay h1b less than native employee .

sratner on Feb 6, 2016 [–]

Well, more accurately, you can't pay a foreign worker less than some floor set by the DoL for the given job description and location. It is unrelated to how much a given company is paying to any one of their other workers.

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