Astronomical Paychecks

The Administrative and Recruitment Organization announced on Friday that a retrospective directive has been issued to all state entities on May 8 for disclosing the full details of payments,…

Members of the Iranian Parliament killed their newly-passed bill on executive salaries on Saturday and once again referred their original proposal to the Guardians Council.

On Wednesday,…

Director General of the Supreme Audit Court of Iran Adel Azar said the “astronomical” salaries of corporate executives have been returned to the treasury in their entirety.

“After eight…

Bank accounts of all public organizations should be transferred from commercial banks to the Central Bank of Iran, a deputy minister of economy said.

The Central Bank of Iran will be in charge of paying the salary of civil servants from the start of the next Iranian year (starting March 21, 2017).

Rahmatollah Akrami, deputy minister of…

All state institutions must use the same salary system to prevent misuse of public money. The parliament’s Article 90 Commission put forth a 10-point proposal for organizing executive pay in the…

Iran's auditors said on Sunday some 400 public sector officials face legal proceedings over their exorbitant salaries.

A report by the Supreme Audit Court of Iran found that executives at…

Referring to the unreasonable salaries paid to senior officials and executives, now infamously referred to as “astronomical salaries”, a member of Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission said all…

President Hassan Rouhani recently announced new regulations about the salaries of top officials and executives.

As per his directive, all state organizations are obliged to disclose the…

President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday said new regulations related to the salaries of top officials and executives, obliging all government and affiliated bodies to disclose the salaries of their…

The tremor from the salary scandals in the Iranian public sector unleashed recently by the disclosure of unusually high wages at state-owned banks and company executives continues to shake the…

As per a directive issued by the Economy Minister Ali Tayyebnia, a cap has been devised for the income of bank CEOs and they can no more have access to interest-free loans as they did before.

The chief executives of four public banks have been sacked as part of a broad government campaign to crack down on undeserving astronomical salaries.  

Economy Minister Ali Tayyebnia…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei urged the government to take serious action to address the issue of fat cat salaries paid to a few officials, which has sparked…

To economist Saeed Laylaz, the rising media frenzy around monthly paycheck of an insurance executive and the reactions it drew say as much about the government as about the motives of its…

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has ordered an official investigation into government salaries after public outrage over high executive pays.

Larijani ordered the Supreme Audit Court of…

As more fat cat paychecks of senior executives and public-sector bankers surface on social media websites, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has called on the Supreme Audit Court to launch an official…

Head of Central Insurance company of Iran, Mohammad Ibrahim Amin, said on Wednesday he was stepping down as president of insurance industry’s sole regulator, following the unreasonably high…