Tamas, I have found you a way out of Hungary!

[Malthus]

  Not everyone has your secret jewish connections...

Not even me. 

[Zanza]

If Mono is "General Disciplined Services (Rank and File)" he earns between US-$1680 and $3764 per month. If he is "General Disciplined Services (Officer)" he earns between $2115 and $12505 per month. Even when you consider Hong Kong's very low taxes, I am sure you can earn similar amounts in Canada.

http://www.csb.gov.hk/english/admin/pay/952.html

[PDH]

So you say, I am on to you - BAs in Anthropology only are allowed to work at Starbucks...

[Malthus]

So you say, I am on to you - BAs in Anthropology only are allowed to work at Starbucks...

Naw, the Philosophy majors cut them out of that market. In Canada, they must work at Tim Horton's.

[DontSayBanana]

My sense is that the wage structure in Hong Kong is very different from the one in the UK or Canada.  In Hong Kong, 50-60% of the working population make absolutely crap wages.  A full time janitor who works his ass off can make as little as US$6k per year.  A construction worker will be lucky to double that. 

But the rest can make huge sums by western standards.  The average wage figure distorts the real picture. 

Employers abusing that kind of pay is exactly why we have a minimum wage here in the US, Mono. And I'm sorry, but a 50-50 chance of earning so little pay as to be abusive by the employer just doesn't sound like that safe a bet.