Living standards in Iraq have improved significantly since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. According to <i>KUNA</I>, salaries of individuals have increased in comparison to its former standards.
For instance, Atta Najim, an elementary teacher at Alnassiriyah located south of Iraq tsaid that his monthly salary was only two dollars during Saddam's era in addition to one piece of summer material and another winter material during the year. He noted that the former Iraqi ruling power had increased their salaries to 13 dollars a year before it was toppled but now a teacher's salaries is between 200 to US$ 300.
