Trucking pay in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area

In Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $50,440 a year ($24.25 an hour), across 1,530 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 14.0% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,530 employed in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, median $50,440 a year.

Light truck drivers

790 employed in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, median $41,710 a year.

Driver/sales workers

570 employed in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, median $36,840 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

520 employed in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, median $44,980 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

150 employed in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, median $46,610 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

360 employed in Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area, median $56,040 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.