{"id":983593,"date":"2026-01-06T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983593"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:51:47","slug":"h-1b-wage-bill-for-us-employers-set-to-jump-to-9-4-billion-under-new-selection-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/h-1b-wage-bill-for-us-employers-set-to-jump-to-9-4-billion-under-new-selection-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B wage bill for US employers set to jump to $9.4 billion under new selection rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has modified the H-1B visa lottery, transitioning to a wage-based selection process starting in February 2026. Higher-paid positions will get priority, pushing employer wage bills higher, and redistributing millions in salaries away from entry-level workers toward senior professionals. <\/p>\n<p>The new rules will have two major impacts. Firstly, the low-paid and low-skilled workers will see their chances diminish, and secondly, US employers will see a hike in their wage bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has modified the H-1B visa lottery, transitioning to a wage-based selection process starting in February 2026. Higher-paid positions will get priority, pushing employer wage bills higher, and redistributing millions in salaries away from entry-level workers toward senior professionals. The new rules will have two major impacts. Firstly, the low-paid and low-skilled workers will see their chances diminish, and secondly, US employers will see a hike in their wage bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983593","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}