Trucking pay in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area

In Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $57,090 a year ($27.45 an hour), across 4,810 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 2.6% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

4,810 employed in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, median $57,090 a year.

Light truck drivers

890 employed in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, median $38,130 a year.

Driver/sales workers

520 employed in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, median $27,850 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,570 employed in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, median $45,100 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

250 employed in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, median $51,140 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

690 employed in Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area, median $61,250 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.