Hong Kong
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM, and the 'pending live-verification, will return to HIGH once fetched' framing is withdrawn: the URLs have been fetched. min_wage_url verifies exactly (HK$43.10 from 1 May 2026). earnings_url does not carry any hourly rate, and its content was previously misread in two ways now corrected in the row: a population estimate of 12,900 delivery workers reported as a sample of ~13,000, and an article about a government survey labelled as foodpanda pay coverage. Supporting material named in earlier versions of this field (Lingnan University research on KeeTa full-time riders, Federation of HK and Kowloon Labour Unions data, Riders Rights Concern Group figures, named worker testimony) carries no URL in this row and is not clickable. The median wage this city is scored against is also unsupported; see median_wage_sample.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Hong Kong Free Press report on the C&SD platform-worker survey (no pay rates)
What would you take home in Hong Kong?
Take-home, weekly
n/a
Take-home, monthly
n/a
Gross, weekly
$281
Gross, monthly
$1,218
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 80% of local minimum wage, 40% of local median.
Notes
Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center rent pending Round D1 verification.
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Primary earnings source: hongkongfp.com/2025/03/19/a-third-of-hong-kong-delivery-workers-make-under-hk5000-a-month-govt-survey-finds/ · archived