Obama using immigration reform as umbrella to eliminate your skilled job via H-1Bs

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23. Some assumptions here

Here is the average tech salary according to Dice.



Here is the 2010 list of top H1B sponsors and their H1B salary averages

http://globalcareerstrategies.org/us-company-sponsorship/top-100-h1-b-sponsors/

Some volatility, but absolutely devoid of any noticeable bias towards underpaying, which is of course legally prohibited. Add in the costs of the visa itself and the usual green card support for successful employees and I doubt it's much cheaper.

I have helped interview and hire 3 people for jobs requiring intermediate level expertise in SAP APO configuration over the last few years. We were offering just over 6 figures for each with excellent benefits and relocation, obviously regardless of nationality. Of the 50 or so total CVs received that met the requirements, precisely two came from traditional Americans, the rest Indian with a smattering of Chinese. One turned out to be a total flake who knew less than I did as a user. We hired the other one, and two Indians. India has massive university programs dedicated to SAP configuration and ABAP programming. We have a few SAP training centers that spend more time on user training and are too generic in training on config, even if you pay the 10s of thousands they charge for full certification. For us at least it was not a question of saving money, it was a question of getting somebody who, for example, actually knew how to build a global DP/SNP process chain. Even dangling six figures in a moderate cost of living area found us two Americans who could and would. I have no doubt that other tech hirers face similar issues, but SAP seems to be a very good example. There are indeed American SAP experts, but they seem to prefer consulting companies than settled employment even at comparable pay rates. I have no idea why - hated consulting when I was doing it.

Funnily enough when you find examples of H1B employee abuse, the culprit is very often an Indian firm operating in the US rather than the Microsoft/IBM types.