Wages don't really come into it. First, Second, and Third World are political terms from the Cold War era. They separate the world into Democratic nations, the Communist Bloc, and the non-aligned countries. They've since gained a connotation for referring to economic status, mainly because the First World countries are mostly fairly wealthy and developed and the Third World countries less so, but even then Poland is a middle income country at worst. They are certainly not "Third World". They have a decent per capita GDP and score high on the U.N.'s Human Development Index.

Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore
As far as wages are concerned, they're most definitely not.