Trucking pay in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area

In Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $60,470 a year ($29.07 an hour), across 1,050 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 3.1% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,050 employed in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $60,470 a year.

Light truck drivers

570 employed in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $47,520 a year.

Driver/sales workers

310 employed in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $37,370 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

110 employed in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $45,240 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

200 employed in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $50,800 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

590 employed in Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $65,380 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.