Trucking pay in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area

In Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $79,070 a year ($38.01 an hour), across 1,850 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 34.8% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,850 employed in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, median $79,070 a year.

Light truck drivers

430 employed in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, median $43,780 a year.

Driver/sales workers

150 employed in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, median $39,400 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

190 employed in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, median $47,210 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

160 employed in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, median $50,560 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

290 employed in Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area, median $65,750 a year.

How to read these figures

These are wages as reported by employers, not owner-operator revenue: they exclude what an owner-operator grosses and the costs that come out of it. A dash means the survey did not publish that figure for this area, which it withholds where publishing it would identify an employer.