Iran' unemployment level was hovering around 2 to 5 percent by 1976 to 1978 .Jobs were a plenty and the Country was building from the ground up and that's why the influx rural people coming to the cities was a lot.Sadly that actually was a major downfall of the regime. Religiouse young workers coming into the big cities and the only people they listened to was the mollahs who took full advantage.A forDehats and rural areas, , well compare it when the pahlavis came, iran was suffering from almost 96% vava and some sort of other diseases by the end of 16th year of reza shah, that was halved and by 1977 it was just around 30% in the rural sectors of the country.
Not all People were not rich under the shah becasue that is not the case anywhere else either, but people or majority of the people had a good enough standard of life that they did not 2 to 3 job to make end meet and the standard of life was improving every year to compare it to now is .....Back then there were plenty of jobs and opportunity for anyone seeking a better life.As mesbah yazdi said to someone who said the standard of life and economy needs to improve , we didn't create a revolution to improve you're standard of life and economic prosperity in this life because those things were very good under the shah, we revolted to make you're after this life better and spritual awakening.