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Here’s an idea: for every h1b visa person you employ, pay a visa tax, which is double the salary of that job.
Can’t find a skilled web dev in the US for $100k? Pay $100k for a visa worker, and $200k into a tax used to either help visa holders, help US citizens train up, or both.
It’s not exactly what you’re saying but the current system does make it more expensive to hire a visa holder because they have to have entire hiring and legal teams to ensure compliance and stuff.
Often businesses just offset the visa recipient’s salary by these costs, and in doing so drive down salary averages, defeating the point you’re making about visas being a more expensive solution to labor.
They legally cannot do that and have to pay market rate. And I can tell from personal experience that they are not giving lower offers to immigrants for jobs that qualify for H1B visas. Often the hiring companies end up paying a little more because there might be consulting companies in the middle that take a cut of the immigrant salaries. The consulting companies exist because they simplify hiring for employers and create more consistent employment for immigrants as their visa is generally tied to the employer. So the consulting company becomes a consistent employer across different projects at different companies. And for the actual hiring companies it creates a simpler workflow where they just tell the consulting company who they need and consulting company provides employees regardless of immigration status
Here’s an idea: for every h1b visa person you employ, pay a visa tax, which is double the salary of that job.
Can’t find a skilled web dev in the US for $100k? Pay $100k for a visa worker, and $200k into a tax used to either help visa holders, help US citizens train up, or both.
It’s not exactly what you’re saying but the current system does make it more expensive to hire a visa holder because they have to have entire hiring and legal teams to ensure compliance and stuff.
Often businesses just offset the visa recipient’s salary by these costs, and in doing so drive down salary averages, defeating the point you’re making about visas being a more expensive solution to labor.
They legally cannot do that and have to pay market rate. And I can tell from personal experience that they are not giving lower offers to immigrants for jobs that qualify for H1B visas. Often the hiring companies end up paying a little more because there might be consulting companies in the middle that take a cut of the immigrant salaries. The consulting companies exist because they simplify hiring for employers and create more consistent employment for immigrants as their visa is generally tied to the employer. So the consulting company becomes a consistent employer across different projects at different companies. And for the actual hiring companies it creates a simpler workflow where they just tell the consulting company who they need and consulting company provides employees regardless of immigration status