CALGARY – Canadian oil and gas professionals are the fifth highest paid in the world, according to the results of a salary survey released Tuesday.

The survey, conducted by international recruitment firm Hays and employment website Oil and Gas Jobsearch, shows the average annual salary for a domestically employed oil and gas professional in Canada is $125,680. That slightly outstrips the $124,000 that energy industry employees in the U.S. make, and lags only Australia, Norway, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.

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