where in the heck did you find that 60k salary requirements ? I don't know about that if that had been recently passed or what?

I guess requirements was at least the amount shown in the Labor Condition Application (LCA). One way to find tentative would be https://flcdatacenter.com/ go to salary wage wizard and put your state and occupation I think the salary should equal or exceed the level1 salary for h1b

Do it and tell us how much it came ?