Trucking pay in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area

In Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $50,960 a year ($24.50 an hour), across 2,200 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

2,200 employed in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, median $50,960 a year.

Light truck drivers

640 employed in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, median $32,570 a year.

Driver/sales workers

200 employed in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, median $25,420 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

830 employed in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, median $39,350 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

90 employed in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, median $50,220 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

430 employed in Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area, median $59,980 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.