Fact · foreign-domestic-helpers · 2025-09-30

FDH Minimum Allowable Wage (MAW)

外籍家庭傭工最低允許工資(MAW)

Figure and reference date

HK$5,100 per month (from 30 Sep 2025)

每月 5,100 港元(2025年9月30日起)

Data as at
Source
Press release: Foreign Domestic Helper prevailing wage and food allowance
Publisher
Labour and Welfare Bureau
Fact ID
fdh-maw-2025
Last checked

Notes and definition

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Other figures in this group (foreign-domestic-helpers)

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Item / 項目Figure / 數字As of / 時點Source / 來源
FDH food allowance
外籍家庭傭工膳食津貼
At least HK$1,236 per month (2025)
每月不少於 1,236 港元(2025年起)
2025-09-30Press release: Foreign Domestic Helper prevailing wage and food allowance
FDHs in Hong Kong
在港外籍家庭傭工
over 360,000 (Filipino ~55%, Indonesian ~42%)
約 36 萬人(菲約55%、印尼約42%)
ImmD annual report and LegCo research: about 368,000.
2024Immigration Department annual report (FDH statistics)
FDH minimum allowable wage (recent years)
外傭最低允許工資(近年)
2023 4,870, 2024 4,990, 2025 5,100, 2026 5,220
2023-$4,870、2024-$4,990、2025-$5,100、2026-$5,220
Monthly; frozen at 4,630 in 2021, raised to 4,730 in 2022.
2026Press release: Foreign Domestic Helper prevailing wage and food allowance

Other figures from the same official source

These figures come from the same registered document: “Press release: Foreign Domestic Helper prevailing wage and food allowance” (Labour and Welfare Bureau). Being in one document does not make them additive.

Item / 項目Figure / 數字As of / 時點Source / 來源
FDH food allowance
外籍家庭傭工膳食津貼
At least HK$1,236 per month (2025)
每月不少於 1,236 港元(2025年起)
2025-09-30Press release: Foreign Domestic Helper prevailing wage and food allowance
FDH minimum allowable wage (recent years)
外傭最低允許工資(近年)
2023 4,870, 2024 4,990, 2025 5,100, 2026 5,220
2023-$4,870、2024-$4,990、2025-$5,100、2026-$5,220
Monthly; frozen at 4,630 in 2021, raised to 4,730 in 2022.
2026Press release: Foreign Domestic Helper prevailing wage and food allowance

How to cite this figure

Hong Kong Story, “FDH Minimum Allowable Wage (MAW)”, https://hongkongstory.org/en/facts/fdh-maw-2025, data as at 2025-09-30 (retrieved _).

中文:香港紀事館,〈外籍家庭傭工最低允許工資(MAW)〉,https://hongkongstory.org/facts/fdh-maw-2025,資料時點 2025-09-30(查閱日期 _)。

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