Hiring, Compensation & Benefits Report 2025
Hiring, Compensation & Benefits Report 2025
Gain insights on the following:
Hiring Plans & Market Expectations in 2025
Salaries & Predicted Adjustments
Structure of Bonuses & Other Benefits
DEI Adoption Trends
5 KEY TRENDS
Every HR must know in 2025
1. Hiring Plans & Market Expectations
The surveyed employers remained cautious about the employment market in 2025, with 48% perceiving that it would remain the same in Q1 2025 as it was in 2024.
Hiring plans show that most employers (47%) intend to maintain their current headcount, while 24% employers plan to increase it, representing a 6% decline from last year.
2. Salary Adjustment Forecast
Overall salary adjustment prediction in 2025 +1.8% (-0.4% vs 2024)
Top 3 job functions with the highest predicted salary adjustment:
3. Bonuses
Over the past 12 months, 59% of surveyed employers offered performance bonuses. Frontline staff are expected to see the highest increase in bonuses in 2025 compared to 2024.
4. Recruitment Difficulty & Talent Retention
69% of the surveyed employers expressed recruitment difficulty as compared to five years ago. Pay raises remain the most popular talent retention measure.
Top 3 talent retention measures
5. DEI Trends in Hong Kong
40% of employers are not aware of the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Only 20% have adopted specific measures to promote DEI in the workplace.
Top 2 measures adopted to foster DEI
Policies that address workplace discrimination and harassment
Unconscious bias training for employees
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