Trucking pay in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area

In Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $48,940 a year ($23.53 an hour), across 2,870 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 16.5% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

2,870 employed in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $48,940 a year.

Light truck drivers

660 employed in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $36,440 a year.

Driver/sales workers

190 employed in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $38,610 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

660 employed in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $38,710 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

210 employed in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $44,470 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

390 employed in Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $58,790 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.