Trucking pay in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area

In Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $49,540 a year ($23.82 an hour), across 760 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 15.5% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

760 employed in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $49,540 a year.

Light truck drivers

190 employed in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $33,280 a year.

Driver/sales workers

230 employed in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $45,080 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

180 employed in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $37,610 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

110 employed in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $42,840 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

190 employed in Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $52,940 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.