Regional labor costOEWS 2025SOC 53-3032

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers Labor Cost in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area (an OEWS metropolitan statistical area, not municipal city limits), the median hourly wage for Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers (SOC 53-3032) was $28.62 in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS); the middle half of workers earned between $23.60 and $35.11 an hour.

Wage snapshot

OFFICIAL · BLS OEWS

Low · P25

$23.60

Hourly

Typical · Median

$28.62

Primary planning wage

High · P75

$35.11

Hourly

Calculator

OFFICIAL wagesYOUR INPUT scheduleDERIVED results

Adjust schedule assumptions. Wage percentiles stay OFFICIAL; annual outputs are DERIVED from your USER_INPUT.

Estimated annual team wage cost · DERIVED

$59,530

Wages only — benefits and payroll taxes are excluded.

Based on median BLS hourly wage $28.62 · schedule defaults 1 × 40 × 52

Low (P25)

$23.60

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Typical (Median)

$28.62

Annual / worker: $59,530

Team total shown above

High (P75)

$35.11

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Official data summary

OEWS geography: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Geography type: metro · area 0019100
Occupation: Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers (53-3032)
Data year: 2025
Employment (OFFICIAL): 55,670
Wage value class: OFFICIAL

UI label	OEWS basis	Hourly (OFFICIAL)	Annual OEWS (OFFICIAL)
Low	P25	$23.60	$49,090
Typical	Median	$28.62	$59,530
High	P75	$35.11	$73,020

Annual values are not interchangeable

OEWS annual median (OFFICIAL):$59,530 — published by BLS for this occupation and area.
Schedule-derived annual typical (DERIVED):$59,530 —hourly median × 40 × 52 from USER_INPUT schedule defaults. Do not treat this as a replacement for the OEWS annual median.

How this estimate is calculated

DERIVED

BLS median hourly (OFFICIAL)Hours / week (YOUR INPUT)Weeks / year (YOUR INPUT)Team size (YOUR INPUT)Estimated annual team cost

Low / Typical / High map to OEWS hourlyP25 / Median / P75(OFFICIAL). This is a transparent percentile mapping, not a confidence interval.
Calculator annual figures are DERIVED:hourly × hours/week × weeks/year, then × headcount for team cost.
Hours/week, weeks/year, and headcount are USER_INPUT(defaults 40 × 52 × 1).
OEWS wages exclude overtime, shift differentials, nonproduction bonuses, and employer benefit costs. Self-employed workers are excluded.

Data source

OFFICIAL

Publisher: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Dataset: OEWS
Occupation / SOC: Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers / 53-3032
Geography: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Data year: 2025
Reference period: May 2025
Source URL: https://www.bls.gov/oes/ (oesm25ma.zip bulk (MSA_M2025_dl.xlsx))
Verification / retrieval: 2026-09-23T05:36:04Z
Content hash / version: cc3e6fa80edf64ab · oews-bulk-cc3e6fa80edf
Data version: oews-may-2025