2025-26 marginal system

HECS/HELP repayments

What you'll repay this year under the new marginal system — you only repay on income above $67,000.

HECS/HELP repayments
What you'll repay this year on the new (2025-26) marginal system.

Your compulsory repayment this year

$2,700

$225 a month, taken from your pay before it reaches you.

Repayment / month

$225

Roughly cleared in

10 yrs

2025-26 marginal system: you repay 15c per $1 above $67,000, rising in bands. “Repayment income” adds back some items (e.g. reportable super). Years-to-clear ignores annual indexation, so the real time is a little longer. A guide, not advice.