Epidemic City Salary | Hong Kong Resident Staycation rescues JobsDB: tourism industry may raise salary by 2.4% next year

Hong Kong has been "closed" due to the epidemic for nearly two years. The tourism and hotel industries have been the first to bear the brunt. Hong Kong people cannot travel abroad, but many people have become accustomed to staycation.

On weekends, there is a constant flow of people staying in many hotels, which can be described as a life-saving tool for the industry.

A salary survey published by a large job-hunting agency on Wednesday (1st) showed that local wage earners will get an average salary increase of 1.7% next year. Among them, the average increase of "hospitality service/travel" is expected to reach 2.4%, which is one of the six major salary increases.

Hong Kong people use Staycation to relieve their "nostalgia" after the epidemic, hotels are overwhelmed by huge demand

Hong Kong people have always liked to travel abroad, but it is sad to want to travel under the epidemic.

Uncle Ken and Nikki, who run the Youtube travel channel, used to shoot Japanese travel films.

After the epidemic broke out, it turned to the local staycation theme.

They went to more than forty staycations in two years, and on average they went one or two times a month, specializing in packaged meals, packaged packages and discounted hotels, spending more than 10,000 yuan per year.

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"Actually, I went to Japan two or three times a year before, except when I left it, I was very mosquitoes... Since I can't travel anymore, I'm just playing a staycation. Since I've prepared a sum of money to travel every year, it's okay. Encourage Hong Kong.” Nikki said that after the outbreak, there was no opportunity to travel abroad. In addition, the price of local hotel accommodation was much cheaper than before the epidemic, so he switched to staycation.

"Ikea doesn't want to give you a meal and a room for you, so I want to be scared. If you are scared, you will become addicted."

Foreign tourists are almost extinct, and the hotel industry needs to attract new local guests in order to survive.

Nikki recalled a small chat with a hotel employee. She said at the time: "We are all common people. You (employees) will have to work hard, and it is difficult for Hong Kong people to greet them." The employee responded, "Oh, yes. Speaking, we all know that Hong Kong people don’t want to travel before staying there. If it’s not you (local customer), do we have a job?"

Uncle Jian and Nikki (photo by Zeng Aihao)

In recent months, the epidemic in Hong Kong has eased, but the international traffic has no expiration date, and the staycation trend has not subsided.

Uncle Jian said that he had seen a long queue of people checking in at the hotel, and Nikki even described the need to "get in" to make a hotel reservation.

"As soon as the hotel offers a relatively discounted package, it is already sold as soon as I enter the website. When I first played, I was left to choose, and it was so flat. On the contrary, many hotels are more difficult to book at IKEA."

Tourism becomes one of the top six jobs with the highest salary increase next year JobsDB: Hong Kong people love Staycation to help recovery

Local customers have become the most important source of tourists in the hotel industry under the epidemic. To provide a good accommodation experience to attract "repeat customers", the quality of staff service is a key factor. The industry's salary budget for the coming year also seems to be very positive.

According to the latest "Recruitment, Salary and Benefits Survey Report" published by the job search website Jobs DB on Wednesday (1st), it is expected that in the first quarter of 2022, Hong Kong workers will have an average salary increase of 1.7%, a slight rebound of nearly 1% over the same period last year, which is continuous It rebounded for the first time after two years of decline.

Among the six jobs with the highest salary increases, "Information Technology", which has a 3.7% increase, will top the list, and the second-ranked banking industry will increase wages by 3.5%.

Both "Transport and Logistics" and "Data Analysis and Research" will have a salary increase of 2.5%. As for the "Hospitality and Tourism" covering the hotel industry, and the "Corporate Sales and Business Development Salary Increase", the salary increase is expected to be up to 2.4%.

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Bill Lee, Operations Director of JobsDB Hong Kong, believes that the tourism industry is facing the epidemic and is losing foreign tourists. The development of local tourism and staycation to maintain the continuity of the industry will help the market recover. Therefore, the industry's confidence in the market situation in the coming year has increased.

"I think it all reflects that the tourism industry is creative to a certain extent. When there are no foreign tourists, it uses the local staycation to help maintain employment." As for the information technology industry, the salary increase is the highest, he believes that it will be related to the period of the epidemic. Enterprises have started digital transformation, and enterprises have also created many new positions of this type.

A total of 438 local commercial organizations were interviewed in this report. They generally stated that they remain cautiously optimistic about the market in the coming year. In addition to planning salary increases, companies’ recruitment plans have gradually returned to their pre-epidemic levels.

According to the JobsDB survey, wage earners are expected to increase their wages by 1.7% in the coming year.

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Hong Kong companies will recruit more full-time employees next year, "Fit to company" workplace culture

According to the "Report", 55% of the surveyed companies chose to maintain their existing manpower, a decrease of 8% from last year.

32% said they would hire full-time staff in the first quarter of next year, an increase of 18% over the same period in 2021.

The five most talented industries are "Administration and Human Resources", "Corporate Sales and Business Development", "Marketing and Branding", "Customer Service" and "Accounting". They are all related to business expansion and digital transformation. .

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Bill Lee said that the epidemic severely affected Hong Kong's economy last year, and many companies tended to hire part-time jobs for survival.

However, from June to August this year, 80% of the interviewed companies that had recruited, more than 70% hired full-time, indicating that the market is gradually recovering.

"Some companies see this situation, and they predict that the market will recover more strongly, so they have a greater tendency to hire full-time employees." And now the global economic climate has improved, many companies have begun to expand their businesses, "Need talents to take up new positions. "Become the main reason why companies hire more people.

However, he pointed out that job seekers should pay attention to the fact that the recruitment strategy of Hong Kong companies began to change last year. In addition to looking at academic qualifications and experience, whether job seekers can adapt to the company's corporate culture has become one of the recruitment criteria.

Many companies feel that the workplace culture of "Fit to company" for employees is becoming more and more important. "Companies will think that finding a suitable company will help the company develop faster and help the team work together."

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