Trucking pay in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area

In North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $49,140 a year ($23.63 an hour), across 2,820 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 16.2% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

2,820 employed in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, median $49,140 a year.

Light truck drivers

820 employed in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, median $35,410 a year.

Driver/sales workers

240 employed in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, median $39,760 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,100 employed in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, median $46,350 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

150 employed in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, median $50,940 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

330 employed in North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area, median $51,230 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.