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Under Hiring Procedures / Immigration Law Compliance

Despite its innocent-sounding name, the H-1B visa program enables US employers to hire foreign employees who have come to be an important part of their workforce.

New: Minimum Salaries

For the thousands of jobs covered under the H-1B program, each comes with a minimum salary that stipulates what a foreign worker must be paid to qualify.

Rule changes announced in October increase the minimum salaries to qualify:

• For example, a junior programmer, the salary requirement jump from $78k to $112k.
• For a senior info security analyst, the salary requirement jump from $150k to $200k.

In fact, according the the SF Chronicle, many of these positions require a salary of at least $208k.

The implications for hiring are huge

US tech companies rely on the H-1B program to hire foreign programmers, engineers, and other tech workers.

Proponents of these new rules claim they protect American jobs from less costly foreign workers.

Startups will likely be most affected because they typically offer a lower salary but compensate with stock and other equity incentives to recruit foreign talent.

However, under the new H-1B rules, only the base salary counts toward the compensation requirements. Bottom line: Hiring foreign workers will simply become too expensive for many companies. Hire American?!?

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