I would say "double prevailing American Wage or 108k, whichever is higher". I would then tie the hard number permanently to the "Foreign Earned Income Exemption" which is what an American overseas can earn without being taxed by the US. This helps provide rough parity for the American worker worldwide, still allows them to hire skills if they ACTUALLY need them, and most importantly will ALWAYS make it cheaper to hire an American. The 108k ensures that it includes if it is a service job like IT help desk or housekeeper, they can't drive down the wage with a bunch of Visa hires, meaning no American will apply, then use the no Americans applying as justification for more visa's. Close that loop and half of the visa's disappear overnight. The reason they bring them here is because a lot of jobs just CAN'T be done remotely or they would already have offshored them a decade ago. Disney's parks is a prime example, they hired Visa workers to operate the back end of the rides and parks, made the American's train them, they fired all the Americans and pegged the wage at the floor so more wouldn't apply. And the few that actually make it through the new system will ACTUALLY be highly skilled and valuable workers that we would want to concentrate in American anyway, the supposed purpose of the program in the first place.
I would say "double prevailing American Wage or 108k, whichever is higher". I would then tie the hard number permanently to the "Foreign Earned Income Exemption" which is what an American overseas can earn without being taxed by the US. This helps provide rough parity for the American worker worldwide, still allows them to hire skills if they ACTUALLY need them, and most importantly will ALWAYS make it cheaper to hire an American. The 108k ensures that it includes if it is a service job like IT help desk or housekeeper, they can't drive down the wage with a bunch of Visa hires, meaning no American will apply, then use the no Americans applying as justification for more visa's. Close that loop and half of the visa's disappear overnight. The reason they bring them here is because a lot of jobs just CAN'T be done remotely or they would already have offshored them a decade ago. Disney's parks is a prime example, they hired Visa workers to operate the back end of the rides and parks, made the American's train them, they fired all the Americans and pegged the wage at the floor so more wouldn't apply. And the few that actually make it through the new system will ACTUALLY be highly skilled and valuable workers that we would want to concentrate in American anyway, the supposed purpose of the program in the first place.
Well good sir, I actually think that's a great idea.