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H-1B Salary Threshold 2026 Bill: What the $140,000 Proposal Does

Editorial illustration of a frozen 1998 desk calendar dissolving into a modern US city skyline at dusk, a rising wage-trend line arcing between the two halves in deep navy and amber

A bill now in both chambers of Congress would lift the H-1B salary exemption from $60,000 — frozen since 1998 — to roughly $140,000, tied to a live wage index. It is not a $140,000 minimum wage, and most tech workers would never feel it. Here is the mechanism the headlines skip. In brief The … Read more