That being said, my salary as a research scientist is about 35% above the prevailing wage as given by the Dept of Labor. Almost all of the PhD's I know working in the U.S. under the H1B program are paid much higher than the prevailing wage and, at these high wages, thre is still trouble finding Americans. And I've seen the same 3% unemployment figures in my field, too.
I cannot speak for waht is commonly called the "High Tech Sector" but that sounds like a horse of a different color compared to research and industrial opportunities in the hard sciences and engineering.
"WOSG is right. I'm here on an H1B and am in the process of getting permanent residency. The current immigration bill won't have an effect on me except to slow down processing times because of all the illegals flooding the system for amnesty.
That being said, my salary as a research scientist is about 35% above the prevailing wage as given by the Dept of Labor. Almost all of the PhD's I know working in the U.S. under the H1B program are paid much higher than the prevailing wage and, at these high wages, thre is still trouble finding Americans. And I've seen the same 3% unemployment figures in my field, too.
I cannot speak for waht is commonly called the "High Tech Sector" but that sounds like a horse of a different color compared to research and industrial opportunities in the hard sciences and engineering."
Thanks for your supportive comments.
I threw 'high-tech' as a general term to cover Silicon Valley-type IT,computer, semiconductors, internet, but specifically, in my field, I'm a Comp. Sci. PhD and work in semiconductor industry. on the team working for me, 6 out of 9 employees are immigrants.