Of course you take home the equivalant of 8k US per month to pay for your mortgage plus over 20k US per month like these guys when their wage was frozen back in 1993
With not a single pay increase since, they still make more than B scale, not to mention huge provident funds, travel allowances etc etc...Yes, 411, the A scale is 17 years old now, long gone, but those guys packages are untouchable. I'm sure you were making 20k a month almost 20 years ago.
Sorry, you'll have to just white flag on this one.
Sorry to hear about the new cadets without the allowance. That's a rough ride in the HK housing market.