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My mid-sized US city (Chattanooga) has an MSA of <500k ppl, yet employs approximately 1,762 H1-B visaholders (primarily as software engineers and data analysts, median salary $85k) [0]. Apparently nobody local is able/willing to perform these jobs?!
And yet the complaint/advice I hear most from local techies is to "WFH at a national company if you want to actually make any money, here. Or move elsewhere." Or some other iteration of "there aren't enough IT jobs here."
I'm a blue collar tradesman, so WFH isn't really practical; but I'd definitely have to move elsewhere if I were in tech and didn't want to WFH.
[0] https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=&city=chattanooga&yea...
We get access to truly exceptional people for whom companies are willing to pay exceptional wages, and we eliminate the exploitation of H1B visa workers.
Definitely like the idea of removing the lottery system — great suggestion.