Trucking pay in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area

In East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $49,370 a year ($23.74 an hour), across 2,040 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 15.8% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

2,040 employed in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $49,370 a year.

Light truck drivers

410 employed in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $38,640 a year.

Driver/sales workers

300 employed in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $36,140 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,010 employed in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $45,480 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

110 employed in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $48,550 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

330 employed in East Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $57,200 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.