What’s the Basic Income of a Typical Hong Kong Employment Visa Holder?
Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Hadley Says… / 5 responses
Many employment visa applicants and the companies which want to hire them struggle with the question of what’s the minimum salary for visa approval?
The answer is quite easy really:
– The target should be two hundred thousand hong kong dollars each year
– This is the total value of the employment not just the amount of salary paid
– So you can break it down into different heads of value
– As long as it comes to about 200,000 hong kong dollars then the essential minimum will be met
 But bear in mind this is just the minimum
The more you get paid the easier it is to get approved!
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The Hong Kong Visa Geeza (a.k.a Stephen Barnes) is a co-founder of the Hong Kong Visa Centre and author of the Hong Kong Visa Handbook. A law graduate of the London School of Economics, Stephen has been practicing Hong Kong immigration since 1993 and is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on business immigration matters here for the last 24 years.
EG
Dear Sir/Madam
Would you mind please confirming if the minimum salary for a Work Permit Visa in Hong Kong is still $200,000 per year?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
The Visa Geeza
Absolute minimum is c HKD16500 pcm BUT the compensation must still nonetheless be ‘broadly commensurate with market rates paid to similar professionals in in HK.