{"id":1000070,"date":"2026-03-30T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000070"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:45:33","slug":"us-proposes-wage-increase-for-h-1b-h-1b1-and-e-3-visas-calls-existing-salary-levels-dramatically-below-market-rates-because-of-which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/30\/us-proposes-wage-increase-for-h-1b-h-1b1-and-e-3-visas-calls-existing-salary-levels-dramatically-below-market-rates-because-of-which\/","title":{"rendered":"US proposes wage increase for H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 visas; calls existing salary levels dramatically below market rates, because of which &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that will make it more expensive to hire H-1B visa holders and sponsor employment-based immigrants by significantly increasing the required prevailing wages. According to the US Department of Labor (DOL), the proposed rule aims to raise the required minimum salaries by 21% to 33%, depending on a worker\u2019s experience level. The rule has a 60-day comment period. &#8220;DOL is proposing to amend its regulations governing the PERM program and Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) to incorporate changes to the computation of wage levels under the Department\u2019s four-tiered prevailing wage structure based on the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) wage survey administered by the Department\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that will make it more expensive to hire H-1B visa holders and sponsor employment-based immigrants by significantly increasing the required prevailing wages. According to the US Department of Labor (DOL), the proposed rule aims to raise the required minimum salaries by 21% to 33%, depending on a worker\u2019s experience level. The rule has a 60-day comment period. &#8220;DOL is proposing to amend its regulations governing the PERM program and Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) to incorporate changes to the computation of wage levels under the Department\u2019s four-tiered prevailing wage structure based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}