Trucking pay in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

In San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $59,780 a year ($28.74 an hour), across 10,440 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 1.9% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

10,440 employed in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, median $59,780 a year.

Light truck drivers

8,240 employed in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, median $45,670 a year.

Driver/sales workers

2,150 employed in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, median $46,800 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

3,890 employed in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, median $46,370 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

1,740 employed in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, median $51,670 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

4,930 employed in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, median $60,590 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.