Trucking pay in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area

In North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $61,770 a year ($29.70 an hour), across 1,240 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 5.3% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,240 employed in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $61,770 a year.

Light truck drivers

660 employed in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $47,700 a year.

Driver/sales workers

250 employed in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $46,390 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

230 employed in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $51,820 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

110 employed in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $55,920 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

360 employed in North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area, median $59,130 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.