Among Pennsylvania's 67 counties, Butler County employers offered the 12th highest weekly wages in 2017, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics released earlier this summer.

The department released numbers for the final quarter of 2018, making available averages for the year. Butler County residents made $965 a week, according to the figures.

Based off rankings of size and population, Butler County is overperforming to some extent. The county ranks 24th in population, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures, and the Census ranks the county at 46th in physical size.

Another set of Census stats offers some explanation: high wages in Cranberry Township. Census estimates for 2016 put the mean household income in Butler Township, for instance, at $72,740. Cranberry's average household income for the same year is recorded at $125,734.

Average annual individual earnings in Butler Township in 2016 were $59,260, according to the census. That figure was $92,688 for Cranberry residents.

Other townships bring down the average. Cherry Township residents, for instance, make an average annual income of $40,294, according to the census, or about $774 a week.

Read more about this story in Thursday's Butler Eagle.