Reply #25: The point is that they DON'T get the same pay... [View All]

Now there are some companies that try to play by the rules of paying equal pay to what American workers get and follow the true purpose of H-1B visas, but most of them use scams to get around this supposed limit.

This scam has been happening for well over a decade or so! I've seen it in action and joked about in companies I've worked for in the past.

All it takes is a consulting company to "specialize" in hiring H-1B visa people and therefore ONLY hire H-1B Visa people. Since they don't have any other American workers to compare wages with that they employ they can pay them anything they damn well please. Then, instead of "hiring out a contractor" to another company, they hire out a "service" to that company, so that on the books they don't have to quantify the differences in pay in what they pay and what the contracting company pays their workers either.

This scam has been around forever, and the corporations continue to feed on it! Until you get some non-corporate beholden congress critters to fix this legislation, it is going to continue. If you look at cumulative statistics, you'll see that the average salaries that are paid H-1B visad workers are quite a bit less than the average salaries of similar jobs by non H-1B visa workers.