Trucking pay in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area

In Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $56,540 a year ($27.19 an hour), across 900 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 3.6% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

900 employed in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $56,540 a year.

Light truck drivers

340 employed in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $47,320 a year.

Driver/sales workers

250 employed in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $35,100 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

310 employed in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $48,080 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

80 employed in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $51,040 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

360 employed in Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $62,520 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.