[simoncion]

> H-1B employees need to have above average compensation or their field.

In the past decade or so, I have personally worked with an H-1B in the SF Bay Area who was working a full-time software position advertised as requiring a Master's degree, but was making something like $120k/year.

"Must be making above the median pay for the position" might be the way it's SUPPOSED to work, but it's clear that it doesn't ALWAYS work that way.

[gmueckl]

How long ago was this? If it was long enough in the past, 120k might have been enough. If not, the employer simply broke the law.

[simoncion]

It was roughly fifteen years ago.

120k was not enough.