Trucking pay in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area

In Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $59,040 a year ($28.39 an hour), across 3,400 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 0.7% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

3,400 employed in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $59,040 a year.

Light truck drivers

730 employed in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $36,900 a year.

Driver/sales workers

770 employed in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $22,890 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

830 employed in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $45,710 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

150 employed in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $51,800 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

440 employed in Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $60,370 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.