There are ~700k h1bs out of ~157 million American jobs. So about 99.6% of jobs in America are held by Americans and 0.4% by h1bs.

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yahway 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Now do the tech industry (high paying American jobs)

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crossbody 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why is tech high paying exactly? Maybe low supply of qualified labor? Maybe that can be solved with qualified immigration? We can call such a program H1B, for example, and it would benefit the American economy overall at the cost of slightly reducing compensation fir the already extremely highly paying tech jobs.

	▲	armas 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		@crossbody that makes too much sense though

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JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Now do the tech industry

Do you have numbers? If you don’t, the appropriate baseline is population.

	▲	lovich 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Are convenience stores getting h1bs for their shelf stockers? How the hell is the baseline population an appropriate metric for evaluating a niche role?