The government announced last year that the sixth term of the Legislative Council will be extended for no less than one year on the grounds of the epidemic. In addition to the fact that members "have to stay low," most of the assistants who work in the offices of established members have also transitioned smoothly.
Looking back on past records, the Pakatan Harapan Zhang Huafeng once hired a special assistant with a monthly salary of 77,000 yuan. The salary is comparable to that of a legislator, which has become a popular story.
"Hong Kong 01" counts the salaries of parliamentarians' assistants from 2020 to 2021. A total of 37 assistants earn more than 40,000 yuan. The 20 highest-paid assistants have monthly salaries ranging from 46,000 to 65,000. The highest salary is for legislation. The assistant to chairman Liang Junyan has a salary of 65,600 yuan, which is 13 times that of the 5,000 yuan coupon.
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Li Guolin negotiated for assistance with a monthly salary of up to 75,000
According to statistics, 37 parliamentarian assistants are paid more than 40,000 yuan, of which 27 are from the office of a member of the functional constituency, and the remaining 10 are directly elected members of the council. The New Democratic Party Rong Haien, who was elected to the bureau, is paid 60,000 respectively. Hired a councilor with a monthly salary of RMB 55,000 and outperformed other directly-elected members.
Mr. Leung Junyan from the industrial sector (1) hired a councilor with a monthly salary of RMB 65,600, the highest-paid assistant to the Legislative Council, followed by Mr. Xie Weiquan from the construction, survey, and garden sector, with a monthly salary of RMB 65,000; and Chen Peiran from the medical profession with a monthly salary of RMB 60,651. Public Affairs and Communications Manager, ranked third.
It is worth mentioning that Li Guolin, a former member of the health service sector, resigned with the president of the democrats in November last year. Before he left office, he hired an assistant with a monthly salary of 75,275 yuan.
Rong Haien, the New Democrat Party who was directly elected, was hired to negotiate with a monthly salary of 60,000 and 55,000, and outperformed other directly elected members.
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Rong Haien helps the monthly salary of up to 60,000 outperform other directly elected members
In terms of directly elected members, Rong Haien helped to arrange the first two for the first two, Xie Weijun agreed to help rank third with a monthly salary of 54,000 yuan, and He Junyao hired the chief executive officer with a monthly salary of 50,000 yuan, ranking fourth, but looking up the information, the director Since 2017, the salary has been 50,000 yuan, which means that he has not received a salary increase for many years.
A number of Panmin generals will give bonuses after their resignation
On the eve of the resignation of the democrats, many pan-democrats not only paid severance fees to the dismissed supporters, but also paid bonuses to former members.
The Democratic Party, Tu Jinshen, paid the severance fee to Yee Aid. One of the senior Yee Aid started to work in April 2007. Tu must pay her a severance fee of 196,000 yuan.
In November last year, Huang Biyun, the Democratic Party, issued a two-month special bonus to seven supporters, and the highest paid person received a bonus of 90,000 yuan.
In addition, Tan Wenhao, Mao Mengjing, and the Democratic Party Kwong Junyu also paid members about one to two months of salary as bonus or compensation.
Street worker Leung Yiu-chung hired a parliamentary assistant with a monthly salary of 40,000 yuan on the grounds that "renewing his post in the next year will be significantly more challenging and difficult" in October last year.
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Liang Yaozhong spent 40,000 monthly salary to hire assistants for extension
Street worker Leung Yiu-chung hired a parliamentary assistant with a monthly salary of 40,000 yuan in October last year on the grounds that "renewing his post in the next year will be significantly more challenging and difficult." The president resigned and lost his job.
The pro-establishment MPs did not give in too much. Many MPs had taken the lead in giving bonuses to staff before and after their extension. For example, Rong Haien issued long-serving bonuses from October 2018 to September 2020 to the Council in September; Zhang Huafeng said In September, he provided double pay to Yeezhu. At that time, his special assistant was still working, with a monthly salary of 77,830 yuan. Together with the double pay, his salary in September was as high as 154,160 yuan.
The Pakatan Harapan Lin Jianfeng and the "squad leader" Liao Changjiang provided double pay for the aid in January this year, and Tian Beichen, the actual political round table, has given out a special bonus of 5,000 yuan or 10,000 yuan to the aid for several consecutive months.
Many unsuccessful district councillors were hired for help
In addition, a number of established councillors hired unsuccessful district councillors to serve as supporters. The Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong hired former Tuen Mun District Councillors Ye Wenbin and Chen Yunsheng with monthly salaries of 20,000 yuan and 14,000 yuan respectively; After Liang Zhixiang's lair was elected but failed, Liang hired him as a part-time counselor for 5,000 yuan.
Zheng Songtai, a member of the Legislative Council of Hot-blooded Citizens, hired Zheng Jinman as a part-time counselor for 10,000 yuan.
Known as "Four Eyes" and "Man Tsai", Cheng Kamman, who represented passionate citizens in direct elections on Hong Kong Island in the Legislative Council in 16 years, lost only 22,000 votes.
In November last year, Zheng Jinman presented Maxim's cake to Zheng Songtai, who was 37 years old. This caused criticism from "Huangying" netizens. Faced with the sniper "Taibo", he praised the cake for its delicious food.
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