This is a good change which prevents body shops from privatizing the financial surplus of the visa. Right now body shops can flood the lottery and underpay their employees relative to direct hire h1b.
This argument is often brought up when people compare median wages, but they seem to forget that half of the American workforce isn't paid the median wage.
[1]https://www.cato.org/blog/100-h-1b-employers-offer-average-m...
Can't you freelance for more money if that's true?
You probably can get as low as 300 working in public sector, but I'm not sure about that now.
[0] https://dou.ua/lenta/articles/salary-report-devs-june-2020/
Now what you get -- that depends. It's either USD or EUR wired from abroad directly or equivalent sum in UAH if you have contract with Ukrainian entity (we simply can't have transactions inside the country in currencies other then hryvnia). You can't get your hands on hard cash in USD or EUR either way, but in the first scenario you can at least keep it and choose when to sell.
A competent software developer in Russia working remotely for western countries is making at least $20 per hour, and in many cases much more. Even a developer working for local companies is going to make several grand per month.
10 000 - 30 000 RUB which is $134 - $400. And that's not even Junior position, as it's required to have 1-3 years of experience to apply and plenty of checkboxes to tick.
I agree that good developer can find much better wages, especially if he's not hesitating to move to Moscow/SPb. But not every developer is good and not everyone is fine with relocating.
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