Reply #9: An H-1B applicant has to prove to the government that it can

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and will pay the prevailing wage. When they go for extensions, the government will demand proof that this was done.

The government determines, through its studies, what the prevailing wage is, and often sets it higher than the market really is, due to the usual government lack of competence.

An H-1B thus has to be paid that, whereas a U.S. citizen does not. The employer would therefore be wiser (and greedier) to get these supposedly existing hordes of U.S. citizens to work for less than the prevailing wage, per the government. There would be no law against that.

Anyway, Cisco has opened itself up to applications for employment from all the Americans who could do that job, having publicized it.