Trucking pay in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area

In Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $50,950 a year ($24.49 an hour), across 1,120 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 13.1% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,120 employed in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $50,950 a year.

Light truck drivers

220 employed in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $35,370 a year.

Driver/sales workers

120 employed in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $40,440 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

740 employed in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $63,990 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

110 employed in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $42,850 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

200 employed in Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area, median $61,870 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.