Hong Kong salaries: a compact market with 75 covered careers
Hong Kong is a smaller covered map — 1 cities and 75 careers — so national figures and metro figures often sit closer together. Radiologist still leads at HK$2,640,000; use city pages when you have an offer location.
Hongkonger pay on this site is built from national medians (when a source covers the occupation) plus observed metro percentiles where OfficialSalary has city data. Open a national role page first, then a city hub if you need local context. The coverage mix is 19 technology, 15 healthcare, 15 finance & business, and 8 engineering — not every occupation in Hong Kong, only roles with real source figures.
Hong Kong is the largest metro in this Hong Kong set (7,396,076 population in the dataset), with a pay index of 0.70 and COL 100. It is also among the priciest covered cities, so a national median that looks generous can still feel tight after housing. Licensing and immigration rules are independent of this cash sort.
The top covered median (Radiologist at HK$2,640,000) is about 5.9× Hong Kong GDP per capita (2025). Unemployment was about 2.8% in 2025 — that shapes hiring odds more than it rewrites national medians. Across the full career set the cash spread from Radiologist to Welder (HK$486,000) is about 443%.
Consumer-price inflation of about 1.4% in 2025 in Hong Kong means raises and old offers need an inflation check, not only a peer-median check. Hong Kong lists about 17 public holidays in 2026 — time off is part of compensation and is not in the cash tables. Figures are gross averages for research; run take-home and cost-of-living tools before treating a number as spendable.
How to use this Hong Kong salary report
Pick the occupation first — Radiologist, Surgeon, and Psychiatrist are not interchangeable day jobs even when they sit near the top of the cash list. Open the national page for the p10–p90 sketch, then a city page if your offer names a metro. Observed city pages show surveyed percentiles; modeled pages (when labelled) only scale the national median by a local pay index.
Then convert gross to something closer to reality: simplified national tax, rent you would actually accept, and whether bonus or overtime is in the median. The highest-paying jobs list for Hong Kong is a cash sort of the same dataset — useful for orientation, not a career menu.
What sits at the top of Hongkonger pay
Radiologist: Radiologists interpret medical images to diagnose and guide treatment of disease. National median: HK$2,640,000. Radiologist sits at the top of the Hong Kong cash list (HK$2,640,000) because scarce clinical training and liability are priced into compensation more aggressively than most office occupations.
Surgeon follows at HK$2,600,000; Psychiatrist at HK$2,360,000. The midpoint of the covered list is Industrial Engineer at HK$861,000 — a better “typical well-paid career” sketch than row #1 alone.
Cities vs national averages in Hong Kong
With a smaller city set in Hong Kong, national and local figures often sit closer together. Still open the city page for COL context before comparing two offers in different places.