Trucking pay in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area

In North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $56,670 a year ($27.25 an hour), across 3,470 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 3.4% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

3,470 employed in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $56,670 a year.

Light truck drivers

780 employed in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $40,120 a year.

Driver/sales workers

590 employed in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $39,700 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

5,870 employed in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $41,120 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

210 employed in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $51,290 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

1,360 employed in North Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $65,050 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.