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Average weekly earnings1 (including overtime), logging, forestry, mining, oil wells and quarrying industries

  1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
  $
All industries2 586.06 598.26 606.32 610.40 626.45
Logging and forestry 768.63 793.12 767.91 774.65 821.23
Logging 792.45 804.07 776.98 782.85 834.41
Forestry services 707.66 763.72 745.89 756.83 793.34
Mining (incl. milling), oil wells and quarrying 1,039.08 1,057.61 1,111.82 1,112.94 1,152.60
Mining 1,051.24 1,036.86 1,101.80 1,086.39 1,130.50
  Metal mines 1,109.27 1,084.60 1,165.36 1,160.28 1,196.15
  Non-metal mines (except coal) 871.52 910.50 920.56 907.39 943.58
  Coal mines 1,015.54 994.15 1,071.30 1,041.82 1,117.57
Crude petroleum and natural gas 1,243.35 1,252.89 1,297.23 1,327.51 1,358.95
Quarries and sand pits 746.72 781.99 845.45 813.94 873.29
  Stone quarries 778.35 778.99 799.16 756.93 831.15
  Sand and gravel pits 733.75 783.11 867.31 844.43 898.36
Services related to mineral extraction 894.44 973.83 1,022.65 1,015.57 1,066.91
1. Excludes owners or partners of unincorporated business and professional practices, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, persons working outside Canada, military personnel and casual workers for whom a T4 is not required.
2. Excludes agriculture, fishing and trapping, private household services, religious organizations and the military.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 281-0006 and Catalogue no 72-002-XIB.
Last modified: 2004-01-05.

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