Trucking pay in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area

In Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $59,920 a year ($28.81 an hour), across 3,260 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 2.2% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

3,260 employed in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $59,920 a year.

Light truck drivers

1,090 employed in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $42,440 a year.

Driver/sales workers

690 employed in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $27,750 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,350 employed in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $46,210 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

190 employed in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $58,830 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

550 employed in Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, median $60,300 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.