Once upon a time, you could expect the average weekly earnings of a worker in all four Atlantic Canadian provinces to bring up the rear in Canada. That’s still the case, with one notable exception. Mining and offshore oil activity has made the wallets of workers in Newfoundland and Labrador a lot thicker than they used to be. The latest figures from Statistics Canada show that the average weekly wage in Newfoundland and Labrador as of December of 2013 was $969.28.

That was the third highest total among the 11 provinces and territories listed in Statistics Canada’s earnings stats (no figures were provided for the Northwest Territories and Nunavut), higher than Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. As for the three other Atlantic provinces, the news isn’t as good.