Trucking pay in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area

In Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $49,460 a year ($23.78 an hour), across 3,840 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 15.7% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

3,840 employed in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, median $49,460 a year.

Light truck drivers

1,380 employed in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, median $37,610 a year.

Driver/sales workers

710 employed in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, median $31,000 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,330 employed in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, median $49,140 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

300 employed in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, median $41,480 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

970 employed in Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, median $54,650 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.