[phil21]

It’s not even remotely close to 2/3rds if you at at all competent at nearshore/offshore hiring. 1/3 at best for top 20% talent.

Once you get into rockstar quality it’s more or less parity since they have all the options anyone in the U.S. has. Most companies are not doing interesting enough work to justify hiring such people.

This is from my personal direct experience over at least dozens if not a hundred directly managed employees over the past decade.

Outsourcing isn’t your fathers offshoring any more if done right. Watching most marginal US tech workers be so short sighted by giving up the only competitive advantage they have left has been interesting to watch.