A Mainland video vlogger "Ding Penghui in Hong Kong", who works in Hong Kong, has interviewed the monthly salary of Hong Kong wage earners.
I'm sure you drooled with jealousy as you scrolled through these vids.
Cleaners, earn HKD 20,000 per month ↓
Waste paper collection, earning HKD 3,000 daily ↓
Nailboard guy, earns HKD 3,000 daily ↓
Delivery man, earns HKD 40,000 a month ↓
Mainland workers coming to Hong Kong, earn HKD 20,000 a month ↓
A porter earns HKD 60,000 a month, saying, "If you work hard, you can make money." ↓
Remember the Hong Kong version of "Lara" who was so popular a few years ago? She is a porter in Causeway Bay. ↓
Fishing man, earns HKD 4,000 a day ↓
The construction worker, earns HKD 60,000 a month ↓
Junk collector, earning HKD 60,000 a month ↓
The most outstanding one is the manure digger, who earns HKD 10,000 per day! per day! ↓
The manure digger is very pragmatic, "It doesn't matter whether you have honor or not. Wherever you go with money, you will earn your honor."
Compared with the Mainland, is such a high-income real?
Yes, it is!
The Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union announced yesterday the pay adjustment rates for the current year (2023/24). 15 major occupations will receive a pay rise of 3.1% to 7.1% with effect from the 1st of next month, and the daily wages will be adjusted to HK$1,500 to HK$2,730.
Given the relatively low market demand and underemployment at present, aluminum workers are the only job type with a pay freeze, and their daily wage will remain at HK$1,500.
Three types of work, namely concrete, bar-bender and excavator, which were subject to a wage freeze last year, have been "unfrozen" and their daily wages have been adjusted upwards to HK$1,500 to HK$2,730. The trade unions suggest that the Government should require a certain percentage of local workers to adopt a monthly wage system to protect new entrants or young workers.
Note that this daily wage is an average!
Unions call for adopting a monthly salary system to protect income
Regarding how the government can solve the current problem of manpower shortage in the construction industry, 58.1% of the respondents believed that the government needs to provide more labor protection (e.g. reducing wage arrears); 52.9% of the respondents hoped that the government would step up its efforts in providing vocational training opportunities; and 40% of the respondents believed that improving the occupational safety and health environment and providing a reasonable "construction period" can reduce the occurrence of industrial accidents.
The first batch of imported workers for the construction industry will come to Hong Kong later this month at the earliest. The Chairman of the Construction Industry Employees General Union, Mr. Wong Ping, said that the SAR Government should examine the impact of imported workers on the employment situation of local workers, as employers are worried that they will give priority to employing imported workers on a monthly basis as compared with those on a daily wage basis.
Wong Ping also called on the government to launch public works projects in an orderly manner, and to avoid the scramble to employ workers for a number of projects at the same time, so as to prevent the industry from "being unable to do anything at one time and having nothing to do at the other, and being exhausted at one time and starved to death at the other". The union suggests that the government should require a certain percentage of local workers to be paid monthly to protect workers' income and expand opportunities for skills upgrading.
Hong Kong's salary increase of 3.8 % this year is close to that of the pre-epidemic period.
With the implementation of favorable policies and measures for talent mobility in various cities in the Greater Bay Area, the "War for Talents" is intensifying, and salary and benefits are the major concerns of job seekers.
The Baptist University, together with the South China University of Technology and other organizations, jointly released the "2023 Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area Salary and Welfare Survey" yesterday, which found that Hong Kong's wage earners will receive a pay rise this year close to the pre-epidemic level of 2019, with an increase of between 3.2% and 3.8%, ahead of Macao (between 1.9% and 2.7%) and cities in Guangdong Province (between 2% and 2.2%).
Hong Kong is a place where dreams are pursued, and if you work hard enough, you will definitely be rewarded. As this old man said, "If you work hard in Hong Kong, you will not be starved."
So, Do you want to come to Hong Kong to get a job?
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