What is a top 10% salary in Iran?

Roughly $1,148/month ($13,776/year) puts you in the top 10%; the top 1% starts near $2,652/month.

What is the minimum wage in Iran?

About $1,264/month. ILOSTAT statutory monthly minimum wage, 2023 (USD).

How are these Iran salary figures calculated?

A log-normal wage model calibrated from World Bank GNI per capita ($4,650, 2025) and the Gini index (35.9, consumption-based — widened to 42.9 income-equivalent). Estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data.

Are the dollar figures for Iran reliable?

Exchange regime: multiple rates. The World Bank official rate (PA.NUS.FCRF) is exactly 42,000 rial per dollar for every year 2019-2023 while the open market passed 810,000 (April 2025) and one million (March 2025); an official 280,000 rate applies only to staples and medicine. Dollar figures here are converted by the World Bank (Atlas method, which uses an alternative conversion factor where the official rate is unrepresentative), not at the official rate; treat them as approximate.

Local Salaries · Iran

What is a good salary in 🇮🇷 Iran (Tehran)?

The median is about $411/month; top-10% earners clear $1,148/month.

The local wage ladder

Band	Monthly	Annual	Local currency
Survival floorsingle-person essentials	$493	$5,916	20,706,000 IRR/mo
Statutory minimumILOSTAT statutory monthly minimum wage, 2023 (USD).	$1,264	$15,168	53,088,000 IRR/mo
Median (p50)typical earner	$411	$4,932	17,262,000 IRR/mo
Comfortable (p75)upper-middle	$706	$8,472	29,652,000 IRR/mo
Top 10% (p90)high earner	$1,148	$13,776	48,216,000 IRR/mo
Top 1% (p99)elite	$2,652	$31,824	111,384,000 IRR/mo

Modelled from World Bank GNI $4,650 (2025) and Gini 35.9 (consumption-based, widened to 42.9). Check where you stand in the interactive benchmarker.

Countries with similar median pay

🇫🇯 Fiji — median $414/mo
🇹🇭 Thailand — median $403/mo
🇵🇪 Peru — median $424/mo
🇲🇩 Moldova — median $428/mo

Frequently asked questions

What is a good salary in Iran?: The median wage is about $411/month ($4,932/year). A "comfortable" p75 salary is around $706/month, and you'd be a top-10% earner above $1,148/month.
What is a top 10% salary in Iran?: Roughly $1,148/month ($13,776/year) puts you in the top 10%; the top 1% starts near $2,652/month.
What is the minimum wage in Iran?: About $1,264/month. ILOSTAT statutory monthly minimum wage, 2023 (USD).
How are these Iran salary figures calculated?: A log-normal wage model calibrated from World Bank GNI per capita ($4,650, 2025) and the Gini index (35.9, consumption-based — widened to 42.9 income-equivalent). Estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data.
Are the dollar figures for Iran reliable?: Exchange regime: multiple rates. The World Bank official rate (PA.NUS.FCRF) is exactly 42,000 rial per dollar for every year 2019-2023 while the open market passed 810,000 (April 2025) and one million (March 2025); an official 280,000 rate applies only to staples and medicine. Dollar figures here are converted by the World Bank (Atlas method, which uses an alternative conversion factor where the official rate is unrepresentative), not at the official rate; treat them as approximate.