Gift amount calculator
How much should you spend on a birthday gift in Australia? Tell us the relationship, their age, and how close you are, and we will give you a sensible range, based on Australian spending research and etiquette conventions, not a guess.
Recommended range
$50 to $90 is a comfortable range
Close friends sit near the top of the non-family range, which tracks with what Australian surveys report people spend on friends they consider genuinely close. This is also where the unspoken rules of Australian gift-giving bite hardest: a generic gift here reads as low effort, even at a decent price.
Ranges are a social norm, not a rule. The right amount is the one that does not strain you.
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