Trucking pay in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area

In Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $60,040 a year ($28.86 an hour), across 380 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 2.4% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

380 employed in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $60,040 a year.

Light truck drivers

280 employed in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $44,870 a year.

Driver/sales workers

140 employed in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $46,240 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

80 employed in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $47,270 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

60 employed in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $49,480 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

170 employed in Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $61,420 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.