[BretLudwig]

Displacing American Professionals€“Why The H-1B Quota Gets Used Up In One
Day


"This years H-1B quota got used up in one day and employers are
engaged in the usual whining that they cannot find people and that the
lack of H-1B visas will prevent them from growing their business.

Todays whiner is Development Design Group [Email them] in Baltimore.
The Washington Post has an article that features the companys
difficulty finding workers. [For Visas, The Demand Outstrips The Supply,
By Pamela Constable, April 21, 2008]

The CEO of the company, Roy Higgs, is quoted as saying €œSome people
think this is just about bringing in cheap labor, but its not. We offer
the same salaries and perks whether youre from Baltimore or Bangladesh .
.. . but we simply cannot find enough qualified U.S.-born staff to fuel our
growth.€�

Hummmm.

Lets take a little trip to the H-1B disclosure data at
www.flcdatacenter.com and look them up

There are 18 H-1B architects working for Development Design Group, and
their salaries range from a low of $34,00 to a high of $60, 000, and the
average wage Development Design Group has promised to pay H-1B architects
is $44,588.24.

Now go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, where one finds that the
mean wage for an architect in Baltimore is $69,210.

We have just explained:

1. Why Development Design Group has such €œdifficulty€� finding people
in the U.S.

2. Why the H-1B quota gets used up on one day."


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