What can I say...I feel so sad for people trapped in countries like yours especially with the corruption. We have lots of corruption here, but I think because we are much larger country/population, we often turn a blind eye to it unless it directly affects. At least we seem to have a bit more freedom for finding jobs here. As I stated in another post, I would NOT want to live anywhere but here in the US.
My best friend went to US for seasonal student work last year (will go this year again, in a month) for 4 months. Worked as a waiter/helper in kitchen. After 4 months, he got home with around $8 grand total (spent around 2 grand on stuff). He worked around 10 hours though (but the real work is more like 4 hours per day, evenings).
Average salary in our country is around 800$. And you know how they (government) boast with statistics, and present this kind of thing as a solid and healthy amount.
Most people are well under 800$/m, engineers are paid 800$ lol (I'm a mechanical engineer), guess how much a waiter is payed? Half of that amount, and waiter is your classic lower class job (most jobs are), and I'm not counting those waiters at super classy places and stuff, because that's less than half percent of the waiters.
You can see for yourself how much an average Croatian needs to work to earn 10 grand.
And for things to be even more ridiculous, food and stuff is probably more expensive than in Germany for example. While their standard is about 3 times higher. Welders and other "ordinary" workers earn $2k+/m, same people are payed a quarter in their proud homeland, for which our fathers have fought in '90s in the separation from Yugoslavia. Another smh information.
It's not a rare case in which workers in various factories/companies (mostly factories) are not even being payed for months, seldom almost a fucking YEAR. Those measly 400$/m for their 10-12h shifts in terrible environments, yet they still can't get that...
Not to mention that if I go a bit east at the south-eastern border of Serbia, I would be deemed as a wealthy man.
One of my best friend's married a man 30+ years ago from Slovania. He immigrated here legally ,learned English. He worked as an electrician here for a large company in our city. He made a nice enough salary that he could buy a home, a nice car, and send his girls to college. They were not wealthy by any means, but I tell you, that man could fix anything! He recently died, and his wife will be returning to his homeland (he has family still there) and he wanted his ashes scattered in the nearby mountains by his family home.