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by bduerst 4284 days ago
This is biased data. As someone who has mined the LCA data applications, I can say you're absolutely right.

These are H1B labor applications, and salaries are carefully calculated to be a certain margin over the average salaries for the same SOC jobs for employed citizens in the region. These SOC classifications can be nebulous and thus not reflective of the true market - e.g. "PROGRAMMER" could be anything from data entry to senior software engineer.

This means that the salaries are calculated and set for a successful LCA approval, NOT the market rate.