Edgeworth Insights

On July 1 of each year, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) publishes prevailing wage rates and salaries that establish a floor for what U.S. businesses must pay foreign workers hired under H-2B and other work visa programs.

We have developed a tool that provides a preview of the prevailing wages that the OFLC will officially announce on July 1, 2022. Our interactive map focuses on 20 occupations that account for a substantial majority of H-1B visas and the 100 largest MSAs (metro areas).

We gathered our Labor and Employment experts together and asked them:  What is the “Great Resignation,” and what does it mean for employers?

Excerpts of their wide-ranging conversation were lightly edited for clarity and reported here.

Economic experts often employ two approaches that use public settlement information to estimate potential exposure for a client- a top-down approach or a bottom-up approach.