Recently, the Feds decided to cut off 'green card' applications, announcing that all available quotas were filled for this year. It was a surprise action, reversing an announcement earlier this year.
This created a few problems for H1B workers who were 'on track' to become citizens.
One of them, who works for Compuware Corp, a 'body shop' IT consulting firm headquartered in Detroit, is profiled in today's Milwaukee JS.
You can also learn a bit from this source which details his employer's H1B requests.
The key information is found when you scroll to the right--look for the columns which are headed "wage rate" and "prevailing wage."
You'll find that the immigrant in question is being paid somewhere between $46K-$50K as a programmer-analyst, and that the "prevailing wage" is somewhere between $45.8K-$49.2K.
On the other hand, the BLS' tables for Milwaukee tell us that in September, 2005, private industry-employed Computer Systems Analysts and Scientists earned an AVERAGE wage of $57,387./year.
That was two years ago.
On this page, BLS gives a more extensive breakdown of job categories, but it's for the entire Eastern North Central region of the USA, and dated July 2006.
There we find that full-time computer programmers earn an average of $69,209/year (hourly wage times 2,080 hours/year)
Immigrant's salary: $50K, at most, according to his employer's filing.
BLS 2005 average, Milwaukee/Racine: $57, 387.
BLS 2006 average, E. NorthCentral US: $69,209.
"Prevailing Wage" ~$47K.
How does THAT work, Feds?
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