2025 MESL Income Adequacy Benchmark

The annual MESL report appendix tables detail scenarios benchmarking the adequacy of incomes for a set of representative household types.

The scenarios detailed include

Social Welfare dependent scenarios

  • Two Parent household compositions
  • One Parent household compositions
  • Working age, no children, houeshold types
  • Older person household compositions

Minimum Wage employment scenarios

  • Two Parent Household Compositions - Social Housing
  • Two Parent Houeshold Compositions - Housing Assistance Payment
  • One Parent Household Compositions - Social Housing
  • One Parent Houeshold Compositions - Housing Assistance Payment
  • Working Age, no children, Household Types

The core MESL expenditure need data, for the full range of household compositions covered by the data, are available in the Expenditure Budgets section.

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