Tehran Index: research terminal for Iran's digital economy

Hamrah Mechanic has published the value of the cars transacted on its platform in four consecutive annual reports, which almost no Iranian marketplace does. The run goes 1,200, 2,166, 4,366 and 12,100 billion toman, 10.1 times in three years. Over the last two of those years the number of cars sellers offered it fell from nearly 200,000 to more than 156,000, down 22 per cent. Across 4,018 public facts on 385 public company records, three print an absolute platform transaction level and two of the three sell used cars. The one rival that also prints a level has not printed the same measure twice: its two latest value figures sit 17.6 times apart in one report.

JobVision asked 4,405 Iranian programmers what they earned in the year to 19 March 2020 and printed the whole distribution, not an average. Across the twelve cuts it published, by gender, city, seniority and years of experience, the 95th percentile spans 3.88 times, from 5.0 to 19.4 million toman a month, while the 5th percentile spans 1.41 times and ten of the twelve sit at 1.7 or 1.8 million. Women and men are paid identically at the 5th and 25th percentiles and a woman is on 58.2 per cent of a man at the 95th. Two thirds of programmers outside Tehran and six named cities were freelance. A second job board surveyed 5,000 programmers on the same job in the same year and landed 0.3 million toman away.

TI Weekly, edition 009. Technolife opens credit of up to 150 billion toman per corporate seller, Digikala counts nearly 23,000 active sellers in its local products programme, Tap ranks third among payment service providers with 12.08 percent of transactions by count, Tabdeal reports a second reserve check, Snapp extends its trip safety service past the ride, and our analysis reads a week in which platforms pointed credit at the sellers they host.