Trucking pay in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area

In East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $53,610 a year ($25.77 an hour), across 2,360 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 8.6% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

2,360 employed in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, median $53,610 a year.

Light truck drivers

1,300 employed in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, median $43,770 a year.

Driver/sales workers

260 employed in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, median $42,640 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

660 employed in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, median $48,270 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

180 employed in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, median $41,980 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

330 employed in East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, median $61,030 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.