⧖ Workforce Augmentation · Parity Wedge funding

Where the Parity Wedge revenue goes

The wedge — the gap between the domestic-equivalent prevailing wage the employer pays and what the immigrant takes home — comes from the immigrant's wage and is statutorily routed in full to domestic hosting communities. Apportionment is COMPASS-weighted: heavier toward low-capacity / hollowed-out places that most need internal capacity, lighter toward high-capacity cities with established immigrant-receiving infrastructure. Communities hosting refugees and asylum seekers qualify even before residents are employed. The wedge phases from 100% in Year 1 to 10% by Year 9 as the immigrant integrates and pays standard payroll tax and income tax.

1.75M/yr

Target intake at maturity

Blueprint Ch 21

100% → 10%

Wedge schedule

Year 1 to Year 9

Hosting communities

Where the wedge goes

COMPASS-weighted, no fixed federal split

Workforce Augmentation Optimization Talent Capture Immigration Community & Refugees COMPASS

Section 1

The COMPASS-weighted apportionment

The wedge does not split along a fixed federal formula. The NSB and Treasury apportion the pool against the COMPASS shortage-indicator suite, so the weighting travels with measured local need rather than with a political negotiation. Three framing principles bound the rule-making:

Where the weight goes	What the funds do
Heavier — low-capacity / hollowed-out tracts	Places with the largest measured shortages on the COMPASS suite (healthcare access, broadband, housing supply, civic capacity, primary care, mental health) receive the largest per-immigrant allocation. The wedge becomes a capacity-building stream for the places that most need it.
Lighter — high-capacity established cities	Cities with deep immigrant-receiving infrastructure already in place — the established gateways — receive a smaller per-immigrant allocation, on the principle that marginal capacity-building dollars travel further where the capacity is missing.
Refugee + asylum hosting	Communities hosting refugees or asylum seekers qualify even before the hosted residents are employed. Refugee and asylum-seeker healthcare is covered by Distributed Healthcare (the universal floor), not by a separate wedge slice.

Specific apportionment weights are set by NSB / Treasury rule-making against the COMPASS indicators and are not published as fixed percentages.

Section 2

Phase-in and steady-state intake

Year	Annual intake
Year 1	250,000
Year 2	500,000
Year 3	1,000,000
Year 4	1,500,000
Year 5+	1,750,000 (steady state)

The Genius-Track visa system (PhD Completion, GTV, Postdoctoral, Alliance-Incentive Fast-Track) is separate and additive — combined steady-state flow ~46,000–62,000/year, independent of the 1.75M Wedge volume.

Section 3

Remittances

Remittances are private household flows from worker take-home pay. The wedge has already priced the labor-market externality at source; the Accord neither taxes nor restricts remittances.