Ask any U.S. recruiter: Competition for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) talent is getting fierce. Benefiting big from that trend are foreign-born college graduates, who are seeing fast wage gains as they help American employers fill those hot jobs. Among full-time wage and salary workers in the U.S. with a bachelor's degree or more, those who were born outside the country earned higher wages than native-born workers for the second year in a row in 2014, according to Labor Department data. That reversed an earlier trend that had U.S.-born workers earning more. Unadjusted for inflation, median wages increased a sluggish 3.6 percent for native-born college graduates from 2010 to 2014, while they rose 9.2 percent in the same period for foreign-born workers with at least a bachelor's.

May 28, 2015 ・ From Bloomberg Business