alt Hacker News> If it's top talent, then they should be forced to pay them the wage of a US worker, if not more.
They are forced to do that, and they in fact do that.
Source: I was hired by one big tech company as an H-1B worker (I was a new grad) over a decade ago (2012), my salary was ~15% higher than what the chart says for "class of 2014".
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For every one example of "you" I have seen 100 or even 1000 of the other kind of "warm body" type of example. 2012 is already a long time ago. What has happened since is that the US reached some kind of critical mass situation where the number of those "warm bodies" brought in to do cheap work has finally killed the golden goose and now not only is it nearly impossible to find a job, the cost of living has also skyrocketed! We're closing in on the endgame here, mark my words. It will be ugly before it gets sorted out somehow.
I will go a step further and suggest that you, an HNer, were probably even a world class talent back then who mogged your US cohort so badly they offered you 15% more to snap you up.
It's just evident that's not what's happening across all H-1B positions in the US, and those are the ones worth talking about here.