It also polled 384 companies and 155,904 staff over 10 industries in nine mainland cities in the GBA during the same period. The results showed that employees in nine cities of the GBA enjoyed a 5.5 percent pay rise on average in 2023, 1.7 percentage points higher than that in Hong Kong. On the employers' side, it showed 98.6 percent of local firms offered a pay increase and 62 percent of them forecast a pay rise next year. In GBA cities, 71 percent of companies said they offered a pay rise this year, with 28 percent of them estimating to offer a salary hike in 2024. CTgoodjobs surveyed 449 graduates from 11 local universities and tertiary institutions and 217 local employers from 23 industries via online questionnaires in the third quarter of this year.
