Bankers in Hong Kong earned 25% bigger bonuses for 2010, but one-in-three say they are dissatisfied with their deal and almost half are planning to leave this year, according to a global bonus survey by eFinancial Careers.
Not counting new arrivals, 56% of finance professionals based in Hong Kong got bigger bonuses in 2010 than in 2009, and just 16% got less. Needless to say, most who earned more were satisfied and most who earned less were dissatisfied. But 16% of those who got a bigger bonus were also dissatisfied and, regardless of satisfaction, 36% were expecting more.
Even so, the city’s professionals did better than their...