Trucking pay in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area

In Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $49,400 a year ($23.75 an hour), across 470 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 15.8% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

470 employed in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $49,400 a year.

Light truck drivers

230 employed in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $37,210 a year.

Driver/sales workers

260 employed in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $26,730 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

60 employed in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $39,840 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

70 employed in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $43,680 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

210 employed in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, median $47,080 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.