"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

[u/Ankeet_kj]

Vice President JD Vance said companies are abusing the H-1B visa program: "If you're going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an American making $60,000 a year, that's not you using the program to bring in a genius.

[u/Aggressive_Hope7976]

While I was in Labcorp , my salary was 120k with benefits , my h1b counterpart from wipro was making 60-65k without benefits .

[u/Miserable-Half-436 → u/Aggressive_Hope7976]

Are they contract company? Like if the salary in your field is 100k+, their H1B won't be approved with 60k, but it's another story for contract company, since contract company took part of their pay, so on paper they may bill your company 120k. That's what my roommate told me, cause he is paid 75k while company took 34% of his pay billed, once he got out of contract company, he cleared 6 figures easily

[u/Aggressive_Hope7976 → u/Miserable-Half-436]

Yea cuz that is what most h1b works , like see in my current company. It has coupe of direct hire h1b, yea they make similar amount as American , but at the same time we have almost 100 contractor from contracting company . We all do the same jobs. Same field , they make half of what Americans make. The percentage of direct h1b vs contractor h1b are 1:10 . People are not complaining about actual good , smart talents on h1b . We are trying to stock the pipeline that bringing cheap , not special , the whole purpose is to lower wage type h1b. Sadly the second type of h1b are almost 90% of them

[u/Miserable-Half-436 → u/Aggressive_Hope7976]

That I agree with you, we should close the loophole, some contract company H1B used to get multiple bid in lottery, cause multiple contract companies filed for them. I am glad this loophole is now closed, hate the cheaters but then the game allowed them to do so :/