[Sgt_Schultze]

I think you're right about the ancillary savings. But to be clear, my recommendation was for 2x the average salary for that position. So even as H1b hires continued, their salaries would help to push up costs of H1b employees.

[Kellis91789]

Yes, the doubling would raise averages, except ... the employer could still fill a “Jr xxxx” position with an experienced H1B worker and then require they do “Sr” level work. So instead of a job that is really a $150K position if an American with ten years experience had it, they claim they only need a junior level person at $60K and bring in the ten year H1B worker at $60K to do that $150K job. Unless they complain about being required to do work above their pay grade, how would the government know ?

Beyond that, we are talking about less than 100K H1B workers, so they are not going to affect the averages very much in industries with millions workers.