Hire Profile
Illustrative landing points of the published scoring formula — indicative, not statutory. Origin country plays no role.
The market rate for the work — the wage at which domestic workers can actually be found. Hard manual labor is not fillable domestically below roughly $50,000.
Where the employer's wage dollar goes — Year 1
Of every dollar the employer pays in wages for this job, the worker keeps 53¢ in Year 1 — rising toward the full dollar as the rate falls with tenure — and 47¢ funds the schools and clinics of the community hosting the worker's family. The surcharge is never a charge on top of the worker's pay, and it is never a discount for the employer.
A three-way balance
The worker gains an immigration visa and a job that pays better than home — with full Distributed Healthcare from Day 1, Skills Wallet accrual, and a path to citizenship.
The employer gains access to a labor pool larger than domestic-only — at exact wage parity, so the expanded pool never comes at domestic workers' expense.
The community gains the funded capacity to welcome — school seats, clinic hours, ESL programs — paid for by the work itself, arriving on the same calendar as the workers.
Employer Pays (any hire)
$58,750
$50,000 wage + $8,750 employer payroll tax (17.5%) — identical for a domestic hire
Worker Gross (Year 1)
$26,316
= $50,000 ÷ 1.90 — wage + surcharge on it = the domestic wage
Surcharge → Communities (Year 1)
$23,684
~90% of the worker's wage, remitted at payroll
The worker's Year 1 paycheck, like any worker'sGross $26,316 − employee payroll tax $2,763 (10.5%) − income tax $745 = $22,808 take-home, plus full Distributed Healthcare, Skills Wallet accrual, and a path to permanent residency.
INDICATIVE — final calibration is rule-making by the National Statistics Board (NSB). The NSB has authority to set the formula weights against measured supply and demand; it operates under a published, appealable, methodology-audited process, and localities can nudge rates within published bounds for capacity, culture, and employer need. This calculator does not forecast the weights the NSB will set.
Why This Works
No Cheap-Labor Arbitrage
The employer pays $58,750 all-in whether the hire is domestic or immigrant — there is never a discount for hiring an immigrant, so domestic wages are never undercut. Misclassification is payroll-tax fraud with corporate liability.
Formula-Scored, Origin-Neutral
The rate comes from a published scoring formula over quantifiable factors — credentials and licensure, English-language score, years of experience, an age band targeting young adults. Origin country plays no role.
Communities Funded
The surcharge pools nationally; each host community draws its share by immigrant count and local need, spent locally on the services newcomers use — school capacity, primary care, library ESL. Targeted, not ring-fenced.
Priced Out By Design
Near the minimum wage the arithmetic closes the door: the post-surcharge wage would be illegal to pay, and raising the wage costs more than a domestic hire. The externality price of schools, healthcare, and services for the worker's family must be met, so ultra-low-wage substitution is priced out of existence.
The Domestic-Share Test — rates are dynamic by design
The declared prevailing wage is verified by revealed preference: if a job category's domestic share shows the declared wage is a lowball no American actually works for, the surcharge for that category adjusts until the offered wage rises to a level domestic workers accept. The same mechanism balances labor supply and demand. The Accord sets the goal, not a fixed prescription — thresholds, measurement, and the adjustment schedule are NSB rule-making under a published, appealable, methodology-audited process.
Calculations per Blueprint Ch 21. All percentages are illustrative landing points of the published scoring formula — indicative, not statutory. Income tax estimated at single-filer brackets on gross less the employee payroll deduction. The minimum-wage floor shown is ~$10/hr full-time; higher state minimums bind where applicable. Payroll tax 28% total (10.5% employee / 17.5% employer; governor corridor 25.0–29.0%).
Architecture version: v10.10
Scoring version: v10.10 (rerun 2026-07-03)