Many people work for state, so their salary is not high and yes, because of devaluation they have some troubles. But their salary was two times reevaluated. And it will be reevaluated more.

So my friend who works on government (nothing special, simple work) gets 300$ per month. 40 working hours per week. He lives with two friends in three-roomed flat and they pay 350$ per month.

If you are better then middle and work a bit more you can have 1000$ - 1500$ without problems. By the way I'm telling about IT sphere and other incomes are lower. As far as I know usual workers at the factories can get 150$ - 200$. Well qualified workers can get two times more. If you live in your town, your parent will have a flat got in Soviet time almost always. It is usual to live with parents till you get married in Belarus.

My second friend don't work in IT sphere. He also finished university this year. He returned to Brest and lives with his parents. He works for state as power lines engineer (paper work primary) and gets 350$.

About me. I have some health issues, so I can't work normally (8 hours every day). If I worked 40 hours per week I would get 1000$. So I get less and it depends on how many tasks I have done.

About rental market. You can find owners by yourself but it takes time, and many adverts a placed by rental agencies. There are many rental agencies.

When I was searching for a flat I called by advert, it was an agency advert. We looked at a flat and don't like it. So agency offered us to find something else. We agreed. They wanted 150$ when they find a flat for us.

As I know usually they offer you different variants per week. If you don't like them they forget you. Also there are agencies who works for some number of flats. But they can cheat you by showing bad flats.

About Hanna's question. Labor Law guarantees every person 2 weeks paid as working per year. Also you can have holiday without pay 2 weeks more. Depending on contract you can have more paid and unpaid holidays.