Cost of Living in Melbourne

Outer suburbs need to be on 80+ for family with 3 kids to cover basics and public education costs (aka other than fees).

Food for family of 5 is around $400 a week, unless you grow your own food, which I recommend in 2024 as supermarket food is stale and old by time it hits the shelves, not fresh.

Australian cities are overpriced shitholes. Why do many young people want to move here to travel is beyond my comprehension. You will bleed money and its infinitely worse than european cities. Spend your money in south east asia and the sub continent and if you must visit Australia, stay far away from cities unless you have plenty of cabbage to relieve yourselves of.

Any amount is enough, as long as you're willing to sacrifice something for it.
If you want a general good well-being you need to be on about 150k roughly to be comfortable for a single person.

Hello guys, I'm considering doing a PhD in the University of Melbourne with annual salary of 37,000A$. I'm curious if this amount would be enough for living there as an international student or even can save around 500-600A$ per month or not.

I am new in Melbourne and want room for two in low rent as possible. If anyone can suggest me.

$80,000 isn’t enough to live comfortably in Melbourne if you want to live close to work. If the job allows you to work from home then yes it’s ok for two people. I love living and working in Melbourne Australia however the cost of living the last few years has jumped so much that it’s difficult to make ends meet on a single household income of $100,000 salary. I think you should ask for more money if the job located inner city.

I have a job offer in Melbourne, annual salary $80,000. I wonder if it is enough for two people?

how much will it cost if I will relocate in Melbourne together with my 2 daughters and with my wife - including house rent maybe 3 bedrooms

@Michael - IF you want to relocate to Peninsula, expect a big jump due to huge jump on Price increase on Properties etc. If you are looking to rent with all other expenses I would imagine you are looking the range anywhere between $4k to $5k depending on what you want !

My budget in Melbourne for a single guy as at February 2022.
Rent including utilities $700
Internet $35
Food $500
Total to survive = $1235

People, there is living and then there is living. If you cook all of your meals, entertain yourself outside of nightlife and events, then you can pay your bills and live in Melbourne.

If you order take away, drink at clubs, go on holidays the. your money is going to mean anything.

Two people earning $50k each can make a life in Melbourne for themselves and their families.

Also, most Melbournians won’t work beyond 38 hrs a week so you people from the developing world can get ahead by working a couple extra shifts a week elsewhere.

Regards
Ducera

April 2021 UPDATE: Things are fine here. It's a fine place to live. I'll leave some information in this comment on where to look to budget for your own needs as the questions previously asked in the comments are for the most part lazy bordering on ridiculous or completely stupid. In particular: Nobody can answer accurately about your own circumstances and whatever job offer you have that's being queried, or ease of job you would like to get. The anonymous people on the internet just don't know.

So, If you want to know about rent: domain.com.au and realestate.com.au are where most things are listed and at the very least are indicative of the property market for both buying and renting.

You can also look at our larger grocery chains such as Coles or Woolworths websites for indicative prices of groceries because you can search for individual items. Presumably you have an idea of your own groceries wherever you are currently in terms of prices and volume.

Public transport ticket costs and network maps can be found on the websites of Metro(trains) and Yarra Trams (trams)

Utilities such as gas/water/electric are going to be widely different on your usage and how many people you are living with if you share accomodations.

I hope this answers most budgeting concerns. Don't waste you time with follow up questions, I don't think I'll check back here ever again, but i hope if you've read this far you have at least been given the bare minimum of how to start budgeting and costs that will apply to you. This is in addition to the numbers above, which is probably the info you wanted to end up here in the first place- just read it and do your own math. To finish up, the borders are still pretty much closed, so it's not looking good for anyone trying to enter at the moment.

But that one guy who is a physician and is looking for a phd position with a 30,000 AUD scholarship for wife and 3 kids- Man.... if you're a physician you should be intelligent enough to do a cursory search and basic budgeting. No. It's not possible.

For that other guy who asks if ''Hi every one please suggest me 10500 AUD is sufficient for me or not with wife and 2 children'' Please, if you are going to ask questions of this nature with: Zero context, incomplete information and on a page designed to answer you exact field of questions... Don't come here. Just don't. We have enough stupid lazy people making stupid lazy choices already.

On the other hand, If you are someone who thinks first, considers the questions and makes considered and responsible choices based on reasonably anticipated outcomes... welcome home.

Anyone thinking of trying to move to Melbourne now after Covid-19. Think about this.

- Recession
- Over 200+ days in lockdown after a second wave and still going (many businesses shut, can't leave your home beyond 5km etc)
- High unemployment (job losses across Victoria (mostly Melbourne) have already far eclipsed the height of the 1990s recession)
- Job market has been decimated obviously with many applicants applying for those jobs that are actually still being advertised
- High population (all those previous years of jamming in immigration)
- High property prices (by all measures, DYOR)

Good luck!

The restaurant prices in Melbourne are totally off. Everything is 50% higher than quoted.