The median school teacher in the Bay Area (teachers are the typical go to example of low paid educated labor) makes about 700k over the 6 year time span of an h1b. 100k is literally nothing, and not just in the Bay Area, it’s a painful joke to those who know about the issue.
My mom is a teacher here in the Bay. Schools were never sponsoring work visas because there are credential requirements.
The difference is, that $100k on top of the 30-40% premium on top of base salary means a $150k employee went from costing $210k to $310k almost overnight.
The math for sponsoring someone on any work visa was already growing tenuous against offshoring, but this rule change sealed the deal by giving FP&A a number it can use to justify that it is much cheaper to offshore.
Your mom wasn’t a math teacher I presume. An h1b is 6 years, so divide your 100k by six and account for inflation which is high and will continue to be high under the current (incompetent? sociopathic?) regime.
...no, that level of high prices/wages/cost of living really is just in the Bay Area.
Median teacher salaries in the US are around $63k/yr. If you were to hire one at that rate on an H1B visa for 6 years, the $100k visa cost would be nearly a quarter of the total cost of their hire. (Assuming, of course, that the declaration that it only needs to be paid once per visa remains true, and that Trump doesn't change it on a whim later on, which are absolutely not safe assumptions.)
Again public or NEAs own summaries. My point was not that the unionized k12 system is abusing h1b (thank God for unions!) it was that teacher salaries are the exemplar of being under paid.
