Guarantee it's below average at most outsourcing firms. They may play games like advertising a position as a "junior engineer" but require 10 years of experience and then bill clients for a senior engineer but, knowing the billing rates for several vendors, there's absolutely no way they pay market rates.
I am all for cracking down on abusers and scammers, especially body shops.
but it is not the reason to get rid of the entirety of H-1B program, as some people advocate here.
This thread is about suppressing wages...
How is paying the same == suppressing?
Because you'd have to pay more to attract somebody local who's happy at another company.
You understand that immigration is fundamentally different from standard supply and demand? Immigrants create both supply and demand. Producing more eggs doesn't increase the demand for eggs.