guides

Guides

Plain-English explainers for H-1B, OPT, and green-card workers — the wage rules, the data, and how to use them. Then check your own offer.

• What is the prevailing wage, and how is it set?

  Plain-English guide to the U.S. prevailing wage: what it is, how the DOL sets it by occupation and area, and why it's the legal floor for H-1B, E-3, H-1B1, and PERM jobs.

• Wage levels I–IV explained (and which one applies to you)

  What the DOL prevailing-wage levels I, II, III, and IV mean, the experience each implies, and how to pick the level that actually matches your job.

• Is my H-1B or OPT offer too low? How to check

  A step-by-step way to tell if your job offer is below the DOL prevailing wage — what it means legally, and what to do about it.

• How to read an employer's H-1B record

  Understand an employer's public USCIS and DOL record — denial rate, LCA filings, wage levels, and PERM — and what it does (and doesn't) tell you.

• C2C vs W-2: where your bill rate actually goes

  How vendor layers take a cut between the client's bill rate and your paycheck on corp-to-corp staffing chains — and how to trace it.