alt Hacker NewsExactly this. Top 1% of artists earn about as much as the average software engineer. Ranking people purely based on salary is turning h1b into a visa for people in specific professions.
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jdietrich • today at 6:56 AM
The O-1 visa exists.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
breadwinner • today at 1:58 AM
How about ranking on salary but by profession, so there should be a separate rank for software engineers vs. biomedical researchers.
malfist • today at 12:57 AM
Does the US have such a shortage of artistic talent we have to hire abroad for it?
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fakedang • today at 12:48 AM
Top 1% of artists have the O1 route, not the H1B route.
Tying H1B to salary is imo a reasonable solution for most companies. Thing is, in that case, most companies would simply resort to bringing in more L1 employees.
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Genuinely curious: why do we need H1B visas for artists? My understanding is that H1B visas are meant to cover highly-skilled work that can't be done by locals, and "art" doesn't seem like a field with a shortage of local candidates?