Trucking pay in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area

In Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $59,280 a year ($28.50 an hour), across 870 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 1.1% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

870 employed in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $59,280 a year.

Light truck drivers

600 employed in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $46,640 a year.

Driver/sales workers

480 employed in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $41,880 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

190 employed in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $39,520 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

130 employed in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $58,920 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

450 employed in Southwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area, median $60,940 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.