Where you live when holding a job boils down to dollars and cents. To find the best cities in Canada to work, we recalculated our numbers to emphasize places with generous salaries and above-average discretionary incomes. We removed factors like weather and crime that tend to be less important to the career-minded.

The best city to work in turns out to be Calgary. But you can't go wrong with several other Alberta communities. Take the city of Brooks, for example. An average family pulls in over $90,000 a year, and a 2.7% unemployment rate means finding work is a snap. Best of all, at $184,450 on average, homes are still a bargain. Compare that to Montreal, the worst city in Canada to work. There, a house costs $315,000, but you'll earn about $34,000 less a year than in Brooks.