What is the maximum monthly income to be considered modest?

The management of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health sets this amount as the monthly income threshold above which an individual is considered modest in France. The CafeBagdad editorial team deciphers everything for you through the next lines of this new article.

Poverty line and wealth line

For INSEE, those who win “ less than 60% of the median standard of living belongs to the poorest segment of the population ».

In 2024, this poverty threshold stands at €1,930 for a single person, after taxes and social benefits in France.

Pour The Observatory of Inequalitiesyou must receive double this amount to belong to the so-called “ riche“, or €3,860 for a single person in 2024.

What is the maximum monthly income to be considered modest?

Now that we have a figure for the poverty threshold and another for the wealth threshold. The question is to know the income limit not to be exceeded to be qualified as “ modest ».

Let’s go to the side of the DREES to have a much more precise answer in this sense.

The Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics, which also happens to be the public statistical service of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, recently published its annual overview of social minima and social benefits, “ studying the mechanisms allowing monetary redistribution in favor of low-income households« .

In the latest edition, dating from October 2024, we are informed that the number of social minimum beneficiaries increased slightly in 2023 (i.e. around +0.5%), reaching 4.36 million at the end of the year.

For DREES, a modest householdit is anyone with a monthly standard of living which does not exceed 1,817 euros in 2022.

Discover the representative profiles of low-income households in France

This study of the direction of research, studies, evaluation and statistics carries this threshold “ on the spot of people belonging to a household living in ordinary housing, whose declared income is positive or zero and whose reference person is not a student“, relays the newspaper Le Figaro.

According to the publication, low-income households have specific socio-demographic characteristics, with “an over-representation of young people, single-parent families as well as large families with at least three children.”

Low-income households are more often renters, which highlights the difficulties they encounter in becoming owners.