Trucking pay in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area

In Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $52,000 a year ($25.00 an hour), across 1,070 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 11.3% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

1,070 employed in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, median $52,000 a year.

Light truck drivers

980 employed in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, median $40,100 a year.

Driver/sales workers

110 employed in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, median $31,200 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

230 employed in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, median $41,080 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

120 employed in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, median $47,880 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

390 employed in Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area, median $60,700 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.