Trucking pay in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area

In Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $61,200 a year ($29.42 an hour), across 1,790 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 4.4% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,790 employed in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, median $61,200 a year.

Light truck drivers

500 employed in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, median $44,060 a year.

Driver/sales workers

100 employed in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, median $50,730 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

770 employed in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, median $45,260 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

140 employed in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, median $58,370 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

500 employed in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area, median $73,060 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.