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> Salary is $70,000/year

The lowest allowed limit for such a job is around $140k in areas like Seattle.



Allowed by whom?


By law. H1b requires the wages to be greater than the prevailing wage for similar positions in the region. They are published by DoL: https://flag.dol.gov/wage-data/wage-search

For this kind of experience, you'd be looking for level 2 _minimum_ and likely level 3. For King County in WA it's right now $149240 and $180710 respectively. Level 4 wage is $212202, btw.


The H1B requirements are even higher, but also WA state law requires software developer salaries to be 3.5 x minimum wage x 52 weeks per year. Currently, that is $124k+, because minimum wage is $17.13 per hour.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=296-128-535

https://www.lni.wa.gov/forms-publications/f700-207-000.pdf




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