— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024 He found out that the average salary for an H-1B is relatively low—slightly under $120k this year. He alleged that many of the companies that import H-1B tech workers en masse are all Indians, including Infosys (61K), Cognizant (93K), and TCS (60K), among others. "The H-1B program isn't just Indian companies requesting visas for IT workers, though. The list of companies seeking visas for accountants is a who's who of the Big Four and other prominent accounting firms. EY is crushing the competition with 16k+ applications," he said. Sterling says a casual perusal of the data shows that this isn’t a program for the top 0.1% of talent, as it’s been described. "This is simply a way to recruit hundreds of thousands of relatively lower-wage IT and financial services professionals." On this mega X thread, Musk replied, saying the H-1B visa program can be "easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H-1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically". Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically. I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.