Trucking pay in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area

In Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $57,760 a year ($27.77 an hour), across 4,330 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 1.5% below the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

4,330 employed in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, median $57,760 a year.

Light truck drivers

550 employed in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, median $43,510 a year.

Driver/sales workers

320 employed in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, median $26,730 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

1,200 employed in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, median $55,360 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

160 employed in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, median $56,540 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

480 employed in Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area, median $68,080 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.