DOL's alternative proposal and its main proposal would exclude 4 in 5 H-1B wage offers

Share of H-1B job offers excluded under DOL's H-1B wage rule

Get the dataDownload image
Source: Department of Labor, "Performance Data"; O'Brien, Connor, Jeremy Neufeld, and Amy Nice. "A Prescription for Fixing the Prevailing Wage System: Replacing Blind Benchmarking with Experience Benchmarking." Institute for Progress, March 27, 2026; 91 Fed. Reg. 15454 (Mar. 27, 2026)
Note: Main proposal used data from FY 2026.Q2. Statistics based on H-1B labor condition applications, certified, with OEWS wage source, with a wage level, with an annual wage offer, excludes wages mislabeled as annual if below $20,000. The Experience Benchmarking numbers come from the Institute for Progress's analysis of the rule.