H1B, PERM Prevailing Wages Updated based on DOL’s Dec 2020 Data

As many of you know, the US Dept of Labor(DOL) published  H1B Prevailing Wage Levels change regulation on Oct 8th, 2020. Later, there were three lawsuits filed on the same in different courts. Eventually, the Court cancelled the H1B, PERM Prevailing Wage(PW) Levels Changes regulation and ordered DOL to put old wage levels back. 

In response to Court, on December 3rd, US DOL issued an announcement  they are updating their FLAG system to work with previous data and updating the Prevailing Wages on FLCDataCenter Website. We have also updated our website PW database, below are the updates.

Updated H1B, Prevailing Wage Database with Latest Data  

Post that announcement, FLCDataCenter.com website’s H1B Prevailing Wages related data was updated. We have picked up the latest data released on December 4th, 2020 and updated our H1B Prevailing Wage Database with the same. Now, our prevailing Wage Database has the latest data. We have also removed the compare feature to avoid confusion.    Below are updates to various features. 

H1B Prevailing Wage Data Updated

When you navigate to  H1B Prevailing Wage Search , you will see the form updated to reflect the data change. 

H1B Prevailing Wages Search Box updated
H1B Prevailing Wages Search Box updated

There is no compare feature anymore in the results. We show the latest data by Year and by Hour. See below screenshot. 

H1B Prevailing Wages Search Results  updated
H1B Prevailing Wages Search Results updated

Personalized Recommendations Section Updated 

We have also updated the Personalized Recommendations Section. It looks like below 

Recommendations based on Wages form
Recommendations based on Wages form

When you search by entering your details, you will get relevant locations, and your wage status on where you stand.  See below screenshot on how it looks. 

Recommendations based on H1B Wage Results
Recommendations based on H1B Wage Results

H1B Prevailing Wages History Updates

Also, when you go to H1B Prevailing Wages History in a location for a position, you can now see the trend for the last 5 years. See below example on the trend with new data. You can see, they have even come down in places like Houston for Web Developers for FY 2021. 

History of H1B Prevailing Wages in a location Trend
History of H1B Prevailing Wages in a location Trend

You can also explore more on Prevailing Wages in menu on various other aspects like SOC Code, Wage Distribution, etc. 

More things to browse on H1B Prevailing Wages
More things to browse on H1B Prevailing Wages

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