Canucks cash in

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 28 June 2012 22:59 GMT

It may not be glamorous, it may not be clean, but working in Canada’s oil patch could earn you a spot among the country’s wealthiest people.

Based on a recent study out of the University of British Columbia, people working in the oil and gas industry are five times more likely to belong to Canada’s richest 1%.

Those individuals take up 4.6% of the jobs in the resource sector.

Not surprising considering oil patch jobs net the biggest incomes, particularly for those individuals working in the oil sands industry in northern Alberta. The city of Fort McMurray – at the centre of the oil sands – has one of the country’s highest standards of living and boasts some of…

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