Trump’s H-1B proposal would push entry-level tech salary floor near $162,000
An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March,
The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $132,000. The increases run nearly 30% above the current minimums in each city.
The mechanism is technical, and the consequences are not. The Department of Labor’s proposed rule, released on 27 March and open for public comment until 26 May, rewrites the way prevailing wages are calculated for the H-1B and PERM visa programmes.
Today, the lowest of four wage levels (Level I, the entry tier) is anchored to the seventeenth percentile of Bureau of Labor Statistics earnings for a given occupation in a given metro area.
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