Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · SOC 53-3032

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Truck Driver (Heavy and Tractor-Trailer)s

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 393 metro areas

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Lincoln, NE	$81,790	4,530	24.8
2	Fairbanks-College, AK	$76,560	590	16.1
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$71,240	21,230	10.2
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$70,730	5,360	4.7
5	Morristown, TN	$67,330	1,470	31.0
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$66,450	16,450	6.9
7	Anchorage, AK	$66,190	1,620	9.1
8	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$65,040	65,100	6.9
9	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$64,200	20,430	10.5
10	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$64,010	20,090	7.4
11	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$63,900	14,320	8.9
12	Boulder, CO	$63,810	650	3.4
13	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$63,800	14,370	11.9
14	Reno, NV	$63,790	4,170	15.1
15	Cheyenne, WY	$63,540	1,060	21.8
16	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$63,420	530	7.2
17	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$63,070	19,460	31.8
18	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$63,040	1,210	9.3
19	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$62,980	3,890	15.2
20	Longview-Kelso, WA	$62,930	770	18.8
21	Bozeman, MT	$62,780	770	10.6
22	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$62,760	3,330	12.4
23	Barnstable Town, MA	$62,740	840	8.9
24	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$62,710	430	4.5
25	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$62,620	1,860	9.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.