Trucking pay in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area

In Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $46,510 a year ($22.36 an hour), across 1,280 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 20.7% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,280 employed in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, median $46,510 a year.

Light truck drivers

330 employed in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, median $30,060 a year.

Driver/sales workers

110 employed in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, median $38,650 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

390 employed in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, median $47,110 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

80 employed in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, median $45,220 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

250 employed in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area, median $56,940 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.