Roles Transportation & Material Moving

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

Occupation · SOC 53-3032 · Transportation & Material Moving · BLS OEWS · Annual · Atlanta (Beta)

Employment · Atlanta May 2025

41,830 −1.62%down YoY
Employment · ATL / U.S.
41,830 / 2,062,040
Median Annual Pay · ATL / U.S.
$59,100 / $58,640
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  • U.S. right axis

Employment · BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · Atlanta May 2021 – May 2025 · U.S. May 2021 – May 2025

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers — Employment. Atlanta: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025. U.S.: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025.
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What's happening with Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

Employment for Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers in Atlanta is 41,830 (May 2025), down 1.62% from a year earlier. Median annual pay is $59,100.

Source: BLS OEWS · May 2025

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Key Stats

Employment41,830May 2025
Employment Change−1.62%downYoY
Median Annual Pay$59,100May 2025
Median Annual Pay Change+0.41%upYoY
Mean Annual Pay$59,400May 2025
P10 Pay$40,900May 2025
P25 Pay$46,690May 2025
P75 Pay$72,070May 2025
P90 Pay$77,750May 2025
Jobs per 1,00014.48May 2025
Location Quotient1.09May 2025
SOC Code53-3032
Occupation FamilyTransportation & Material Moving53-0000

Pay Distribution Atlanta (Beta) · May 2025

  1. P10 $40,900
  2. P25 $46,690
  3. Median $59,100
  4. P75 $72,070
  5. P90 $77,750

Annual wage percentiles as published (BLS OEWS). Only the five published points are drawn; nothing between them is estimated.

Job Economy Report the market for this role · Atlanta (Beta)

Employment

41,830
−1.62%down YoY

5 annual observations

Employment Concentration

Jobs per 1,00014.48May 2025
Location Quotient1.09May 2025

Atlanta (Beta) · relative to all occupations

Atlanta vs. U.S. matching OEWS measures

MeasureAtlantaU.S.Atlanta vs U.S.
Employment May 2025 41,830 −1.62%down 2,062,040 −0.41%down
Median Annual Pay May 2025 $59,100 +0.41%up $58,640 +2.09%up +0.8% vs U.S.
Mean Annual Pay May 2025 $59,400 +1.76%up $59,710 +2.24%up −0.5% vs U.S.
P25 Pay May 2025 $46,690 +0.50%up $47,960 +1.55%up −2.6% vs U.S.
P75 Pay May 2025 $72,070 +4.21%up $69,120 +5.49%up +4.3% vs U.S.

Atlanta is msa:12060; no other area's figure is substituted. Badges are each geography's own published year change.

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Performance Overview change over each horizon the series supports

Employment · 1 Year

−1.62%down

May 2025

  • Transportation & Material Moving −0.26%down
  • All occupations +0.62%up

Employment · 3 Year

−2.77%down

since 2022

Median Pay · 1 Year

+0.41%up

May 2025

  • Transportation & Material Moving +2.46%up
  • All occupations +2.81%up

Median Pay · 3 Year

+13.3%up

since 2022

Data & Methodology

Source BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
Dataset bls.oews
Program Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (annual, May reference)
Reference Period May 2025
Geography Atlanta (Beta) (msa:12060)
SOC Code 53-3032
Published Measures 9 of 9
Employment Metric ID bls.oews.employment.soc_53_3032
Employment Observations 5
Hiring Context Market-wide BLS JOLTS (national); no occupation-level hiring series is published
Description Source O*NET 30.1 Database (O*NET-SOC 53-3032.00)
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