Enemies with benefits streaming8/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Then, he asked, “what am I doing here?” A lady in the office (who was from India) said something in a chipper voice like “well, its a globalized world. One day in the office he read outloud from an article about how UCLA at Sacramento replaced its tech workers with H-1B workers. Not long ago, I worked with a guy in his 30s who was doing one of the school-tech company partnerships, as part of his plan to switch careers. I dated one over 15 years ago, she had to jump through a lot of hoops and was tethered to her employer with below-market wages. I know it’s not a bed of roses for H1Bs, either. We both agree that American workers had it a whole lot better back then, not being on call 24/7 and not having to justify continued employment to execs who don’t even understand what you do. My dad was also a career IT guy, spent his first decade and a half as a COBOL programmer starting back in the late 60s. The credo seems to be “competition for thee, but not for me” Project managers, HR people, even lower level executives seem to have easy lives without relentless H1B competition. It’s not that IT leads to a terrible life, but it leads to a far more difficult one than some of the other people I’ve worked around. I have often questioned my decision to pursue this line of work in college and beyond. Now, after a few decades, it’s more of a chicken and egg question. In the early H1B days the aim was absolutely to depress American wages. The much ballyhooed jobs recovery is a bit suspect. Jobs gains in the two lowest paying classifications exceed gains in professional services. How long those gains can last is unknown. The one bright spot is job growth in the professional and business service category, a well paying classification. Job growth in the top four paying classifications has been very weak. There are many ways to spin this data, but none of them look particularly promising. Many job classifications are stagnant or worse. Since 2001, the big three job gainers are education and health care, professional services, and leisure and hospitality.Įducation and health care, the top gainer, is a mixture of high paying professional nursing jobs and low paying home care or other caregiver jobs. Note: Fred did not have a download for “other services” so I skipped it.Ĭlearly the only standout here is professional and business services, the 5th best paying classification. Those working in utilities make an average of $40.34 per hour. ![]() Those in leisure and hospitality make an average of $15.83 per hour. Regardless, it certainly makes a huge difference where you work. That is barely keeping up with inflation, assuming you believe BLS consumer price statistics. Year-over-year, hourly wages are up 2.6%.
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