Chamber executive director Richard A. Pierce said hard copies of the survey results will be printed and available at their office in Garapan on Monday next week.
Companies and organizations that completed their surveys will receive the “Wage and Salary Summary Report,” a list of organizations participating in the wage and salary survey and a document titled “Methods & Procedures of the Survey.”
Companies and organizations that did not participate are not entitled to the copyrighted summary report but they can obtain a copy the chamber for $500.
Copyright restrictions will apply to any company or organization not participating, but they can use the summary report for applications for H-1B worker visas in the future, as well as utilizing the surveys for other purposes.
The chamber said employers now have an option outside accepting prevailing wage rates from Guam, Hawaii and the U.S. mainland with their H-1B visa applications. Up until next week there would have been no other choice for those submitting those petitions, the chamber added.
Chamber president Doug Brennan said they believe “this survey report represents the majority of those employers who would apply for many of their employees fitting into specialized and professional jobs classifications where H-1B work visas will be their best available option now under United States Citizenship and Immigration Services authority.”
The chamber contracted the Guam Employers Council from July to the first part of this month to conduct the prevailing wage survey. The council polled and re-polled 452 organizations.
The survey showed that nearly 50 percent of those that received survey forms responded completely. The survey responses represented over 8,675 employees in over 408 different job classifications in the private and public sectors.
Job classifications were listed under the Standard Occupational Classifications as recommended by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification.
Brennan thanked all the organizations that participated, especially the CNMI government “for its cooperative effort at getting their agencies and departments in the executive branch to participate.”
The CNMI government will receive the report in a ceremony on Oct. 6 at the governor’s office on Capital Hill.
