Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,108
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$14,872
24.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,984
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$61,980
Kept after tax
$47,108
Worth in national money
$44,984
State rank
9
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Oregon pays this job a middle wage of $61,980, ranking 9 of 51 states and sitting about 5.7% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Oregon, this sits in the middle: 255 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $61,980, tax leaves $47,108 — and because Oregon is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $44,984 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $64,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- Oregon's median for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers is $61,980, about 5.7% above the national figure and 9 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers ranks 255 of 489 occupations in Oregon by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $47,108 remains from the Oregon median of $61,980 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $44,984 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $64,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,220 |
| This salary | $61,980 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Oregon | $47,108 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,981 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,508 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $55,915 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,289 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Oregon earn less than $61,980. The published range is $47,700 up to $81,220, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $47,108 take-home in Oregon comes from $61,980. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 255 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Oregon, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $44,984, the adjusted value of that $61,980 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 255 of 489 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers in Oregon the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,700 to $81,220. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $47,108, from $61,980, assumes a single Oregon filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 255 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 9 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Oregon, so $44,984 — the adjusted value of that $61,980 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 255 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $64,080, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $47,700 at the bottom tenth to $81,220 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $44,984 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Oregon's own levy, $47,108 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Oregon is $64,080. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,700 to $81,220) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $44,984 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $47,108 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.