Trucking pay in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area

In South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $48,650 a year ($23.39 an hour), across 3,900 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 17.0% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

3,900 employed in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $48,650 a year.

Light truck drivers

860 employed in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $37,200 a year.

Driver/sales workers

680 employed in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $37,290 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,820 employed in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $39,000 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

210 employed in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $50,170 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

870 employed in South Georgia nonmetropolitan area, median $58,390 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.