Trucking pay in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area

In Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $56,710 a year ($27.27 an hour), across 2,290 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 3.3% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

2,290 employed in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $56,710 a year.

Light truck drivers

430 employed in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $36,980 a year.

Driver/sales workers

110 employed in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $35,840 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

800 employed in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $45,780 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

180 employed in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $42,040 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

310 employed in Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area, median $61,450 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.