Trucking pay in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area

In Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $50,380 a year ($24.22 an hour), across 2,700 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 14.1% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

2,700 employed in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, median $50,380 a year.

Light truck drivers

450 employed in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, median $34,230 a year.

Driver/sales workers

340 employed in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, median $35,360 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

440 employed in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, median $42,450 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

210 employed in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, median $48,200 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

520 employed in Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, median $57,410 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.