Thursday morning NPR had yet another lobbyist sob story on H-1B.
A small company called GYMPACT has made an H-1B application for a "highly skilled" worker and they do not know if it will be approved.
That inspired me to take a look at the H-1B disclosure data at the Foreign Labor Certification Data Center.
In last year's data there are two withdrawn and one approved Labor Condition Applications for GYMPACT (also as GYM-PACT). The approved application is for a programmer in Cambridge, where the average wage is $88,000.
However, GYMPACT claimed this worker is at the lowest skill level, giving a prevailing wage of $59,322. They will pay $60,000, saving them a $28,000 a year savings by hiring cheap H-1B foreign labor.
Of course NPR missed all this.
When employers want more foreign labor, these workers are "highly skilled". When it comes to determining their pay, these very same workers become low skilled.
Funny how that works.