[milanove]

I wonder if many of these lowball salary job postings could just be companies applying for an employee's greencard through the PERM system. IIUC, for PERM, the applicant's employer is required to put out a job posting for at least 10 days to show nobody else can do the job their employee/greencard applicant does. The salary they list in the posting must be at least the minimum wage dictated by the Department of Labor for the role.

However, I suspect that the company making the ad will just list the lowest possible salary in the posting to deter real applicants from applying, hence making the greencard applications smoother.

However, don't quote me on this, since this is just my very vague knowledge on how greencard applications work. Somebody else here who knows more about this topic, please chime in to let me know if this is true.