[sz4kerto]

I live in the EU and the median wage in my country is around $5000 a year after taxes.

[alphakappa]

What country is that?

Edit: Looking at some EC website [1], these are the countries with median gross annual income < EUR 10,000:

Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania

1. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

[kalmi10]

sz4kerto -(fixup)-> szakértő -(Hungarian to English)-> professional/expert

so I can safely guess Hungary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_Europe_by_...

[sz4kerto]

Hungary. The monthly median is around $500 net.

[MikusR]

Basically any ex USSR country.

[jpatokal]

Ex-Communist country, you mean. The only ex-USSR countries in the EU are the Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia).