Where is better to work and live in Russia: what the ranking of the regional capitals showed Yad published a ranking of Russian regional centers for work-life balance for 2025. The calculations took into account the median salary, the income after deducting apartments for rent, as well as the number of places of recreation and entertainment. At the top of the ranking were Moscow, St. Petersburg and Krasnodar. But if you take into account not only the size of the salary, the picture becomes more interesting. Kaliningrad: 12th in the table according to the ranking, Kaliningrad received 31 points, while Moscow received a maximum of 100 points. Main indicators of the city: median salary - 82 thousand rubles. For comparison, the average in the table is 88 thousand rubles. Deducting the rent, the median "net" salary is 2.08 times the living wage. The average in the table is 2.47. Number of recreation and entertainment places - 5,168. According to the final assessment, Kaliningrad is on the same level as Voronezh. Higher in the table are, in particular, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk and Kazan. What else does the rating show? A high salary in itself does not guarantee a high position. For example, in Anadyr the median salary is 184 thousand rubles, but the final assessment of the attractiveness of life is only 3 points. In Khanty-Mansiysk, the wages are also high, and the income after rent reaches 3.94 subsistence minimum, but the final score of the city is 9 points. The rating reflects the indicators selected by the authors and is not a universal assessment of quality of life. For Kaliningrad, the gap between the relatively high position in the overall table and the more modest ratio between income and housing costs is particularly noticeable.