{"id":337753,"date":"2025-10-01T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337753"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:05:42","slug":"in-irans-broken-economy-workers-fight-to-survive-on-wages-below-the-poverty-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/in-irans-broken-economy-workers-fight-to-survive-on-wages-below-the-poverty-line\/","title":{"rendered":"In Iran\u2019s Broken Economy, Workers Fight to Survive on Wages Below the Poverty Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_337754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337754\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-337754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025.jpg\" alt=\"September 30, 2025\u2014Kermanshah, western Iran Retirees from civil service, military, Social Security, healthcare, telecommunications, and other funds rallied, demanding justice and fair pensions\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025-741x420.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iran-kermanshah-retirees-protests-30092025-696x395.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 30, 2025\u2014Kermanshah, western Iran Retirees from civil service, military, Social Security, healthcare, telecommunications, and other funds rallied, demanding justice and fair pensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In today\u2019s Iran, chronic inflation has stripped the working class of the most basic right: to live with dignity. For millions of workers, wages no longer sustain life\u2014they merely delay collapse. Survival comes only by sacrificing health, nutrition, housing, and education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to independent estimates, a three-member working family in Tehran needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilna.ir\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C-9\/1692688-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82-%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF-%D9%85%D9%85%DA%A9%D9%86-%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 50 million tomans<\/a> per month to cover essentials such as housing, food, healthcare, and transportation. Yet the minimum wage, set by the regime\u2019s Supreme Labor Council for 2025\u20132026, is only 10.3 million tomans. Even when adding small allowances for housing (1 million), food (1.5 million), and child support (500,000 per child), a married worker with two children earns barely 13\u201315 million tomans\u2014less than one-third of what is required.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A widening gap between wages and survival<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cost of living in Tehran has surged to unprecedented levels. Social welfare estimates place the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asriran.com\/fa\/news\/1096650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cbasic subsistence basket\u201d<\/a> at 25\u201330 million tomans, but with hidden expenses\u2014emergency medical treatment, children\u2019s schooling, and rising utilities\u2014the figure easily approaches 50 million tomans. Housing alone consumes 35\u201370 percent of a worker\u2019s income, pushing families into debt and dependency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Nation on the Brink: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Economy Nears Total Breakdown<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vGWSKMuzub\">https:\/\/t.co\/vGWSKMuzub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1931982986250973468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This chasm between wages and costs is not an accident; it is the result of deliberate policies. While inflation gallops, wages remain frozen. In September 2025, point-to-point inflation hit 45.3 percent, the highest in 28 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khabaronline.ir\/news\/2121100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food prices rose 57.9 percent<\/a>, while bread, the most basic staple, soared by 94.3 percent. A kilo of chicken now costs 115,000 tomans, Iranian rice 250,000, and red meat over one million. Even lentils and beans\u2014once the poor man\u2019s protein\u2014are priced at 160,000 to 300,000 tomans per kilo. For a family of three, just food now requires nearly 20 million tomans per month.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Housing: the unpayable burden<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Housing has become the greatest crisis for workers. In middle-income neighborhoods of Tehran such as Narmak or Naziabad, a modest 60-square-meter apartment requires a deposit of <a href=\"https:\/\/divar.ir\/s\/fardis\/buy-apartment?price=-500000000&amp;page=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400\u2013500 million tomans<\/a> and monthly rent of 3\u201314 million. In central areas, rents exceed 20 million. Families spend over 70 percent of income on housing\u2014well beyond the international threshold of 30 percent that defines a \u201chousing crisis.\u201d The result is widespread debt, loans, and forced relocation to poorer suburbs.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A system fueling hyperinflation<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond wages and prices lies a deeper danger: the <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfocus.com\/economy\/49440-all-about-hyperinflation-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specter of hyperinflation<\/a>. Years of fiscal mismanagement, compounded by sanctions and corruption, have left the state with yawning deficits. Instead of structural reform, the regime has resorted to monetizing the deficit, printing money to cover costs. As trust in the rial collapses, money circulation accelerates, further driving up inflation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s response\u2014price controls and propaganda\u2014has failed to halt the spiral. The activation of the \u201csnapback\u201d sanctions over the regime\u2019s continued belligerence on its nuclear weapons program has only worsened public expectations, fueling panic and instability in the markets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>&#39;s Economic Collapse Deepens as 80% Face Poverty, Blackouts Worsen, and Regime Braces for Unrest<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X0aF4AqFgG\">https:\/\/t.co\/X0aF4AqFgG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1960056643812827261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The toll on workers and families<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 60 percent of Iranian workers hold multiple jobs in a desperate attempt to keep pace with costs. This leads to exhaustion, declining productivity, and family disintegration. A child\u2019s school supplies now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/fa\/news\/1404\/07\/07\/3410824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost 7\u20138 million tomans<\/a>, with some items inflating by 200\u2013300 percent. Each new expense tips families further into crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With real wages reduced to less than 200 dollars per month (at an exchange rate of 110,000 tomans per dollar), Iranian workers live on the edge of survival. Every illness, every rent increase, every price shock becomes a life-threatening crisis.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than economics: a structural injustice<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/widespread-protests-grip-iran-over-unpaid-wages-and-failing-public-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapse of wages<\/a> is not merely an economic issue; it is a social injustice. Workers\u2014the backbone of Iran\u2019s production\u2014are being systematically marginalized. While the minimum cost of living has risen 2.7 times, wages remain stagnant. Under a regime marked by corruption, resource plunder, and international isolation, the working class has been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In today\u2019s Iran, work no longer guarantees life\u2014it merely prolongs survival. For the nation\u2019s workers, the fight is not about prosperity but about the right to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read In today&rsquo;s Iran, chronic inflation has stripped the working class of the most basic right: to live with dignity. 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