Not to disappoint you, but with Canadian passport you will not be allowed to work anywhere else but Canada. While you can get a US work visa at the border rather than at the embassy (a small perk Canadians have compare to the rest of the countries), you will still need to first fine a job in the US that is willing to sponsor you an H1B visa.
= Yes for sure Canadian passport holder can work. Its quite obvious that for an job one needs an offer/valid job to work for. With some formal documents/forms one can work legally for eg. US (this case students are exempt)
refer below links
1. http://www.wikihow.com/Work-in-the-Usa-As-a-Canadian-Citizen
2. http://canada.usembassy.gov/visas/visas/categories-and-requirements/important-notice-for-canadian-citizens.html
3. http://canada.usembassy.gov/visa-faq.html
4. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090224144725AAvdIG0
On a related note, CAD 38,000 is not an annual income--it's an annual GDP per capita. In other words, the total value of everything the country produces in a year divided by every Canadian citizen. While it does correlate strongly with the wealth of a society, it does not mean that every Canadian gets $38,000 annually.
I have used the word PER CAPITA before annual income, in commercial terms when we say per capita annual income it refers to the GDP, quite obvious and not Per person
lease note that above is just mathematical averaging and summation of data provided by the forum members in the spread sheet of this forum, I did not manipulate anything in it on my own. Therefore vailidity of these numbers will totally depend upon authenticity of information entered by forum members in the spread sheet. 
