Mavishka,
When you say above the minimum wage, do you mean
the absolute minimum wage, or the range specified in that
Dept of Labor's reference for given positions?
According to Sheila Murthy, the INS provisionial guidelines
for AC21 say salary doesn't have to be same as in the labor
cert. But these are only guidelines. It's still at the IIO's discretion,
although they do have to get direction from INS HQ.
According to Sheila, the salary just has to be enough so that
you don't become a "public charge". (Try finding a definition
for what exactly constitutes a public charge, on Google.... !!!)
In other words, you don't become a burden on the state/draw welfare
[source:
www.murthy.com - AC21 FAQs].