Actually , my girlie was surprised how little pilots in HK actually earn when compared to all the hype she's heard. I guess 20 yrs ago, the A scale WAS really something to crow about, but I dont think they did. Bring along B scale and all we get is how well Pilots are paid, which will take another 20 years to loose its .
A Standard Chartered investement banker, with 10years total experience can expect a rental of around 150K on top of asalary of $250000/month plus bonus ++. And this is post banking crisis.