Patently not true.
The wage is almost never higher.
I work in Silicon Valley and see the posting for H1-B with the salary on the walls of lunchrooms.
I've working in The Valley for almost 30 years and I see how the system is gamed.
Look at the following links from our own GAO and the IEEE
GAO ->
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-26
eWeek from 10 years ago even ->
http://www.eweek.com/it-management/thousands-of-h-1b-workers-are-underpaid-gao-reports
IEEE ->
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from...commentary-the-h1b-problem-as-ieeeusa-sees-it
An excerpt from that 2017 article:
"For example, you point out that, according to
H1BPay.com, Facebook pays its software engineers in Menlo Park, on average, US $138,294, which is a pretty good salary. However,
Smartorg pays software engineers on H-1B visas in Menlo Park only $80,000 annually, which is a ridiculously low salary for the San Jose region.
This difference illustrates an important point about H-1B visas. While some companies pay their H-1B employees’ salaries equivalent to what American workers get paid, many companies do not. In fact, most H-1B visas are used, not by Facebook and other big tech companies, but by outsourcing and consulting companies.
And the salaries paid by those companies tell a different story.
For example,
Wipro, a large outsourcing company, paid its 104 program analysts in San Jose exactly $60,000 each in 2016.
Brocade, in contrast, paid their programmer analysts $130,000 in the same city.
Similarly, Infosys, the largest user of H-1B visas, paid their 158 technology analysts in New York City, one of the most expensive cities in the world, $67,832 on average last year, not enough to rent a closet in that city."
Migrant Tech Workers Abused ->
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from...d-by-contract-labor-firms-investigation-shows
So please don't tell me about H1-B having a positive impact on an industry that I have worked in for the last 30 years.