Trucking pay in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area

In Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $50,020 a year ($24.05 an hour), across 4,650 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 14.7% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

4,650 employed in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $50,020 a year.

Light truck drivers

890 employed in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $44,610 a year.

Driver/sales workers

790 employed in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $27,910 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

260 employed in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $38,460 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

420 employed in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $46,540 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

730 employed in Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $59,300 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.