If you are a delivery driver in South Carolina, you might want to consider getting a raise. Working as a delivery driver can take many forms. If rural living is more your style, you can pick up crops from farms and take them to markets around their state and beyond. Suburban drivers can work for delivery companies that deliver packages to companies and to people’s homes.
For those living in dense urban areas, there is the option of working in food delivery, bringing food from restaurants to people’s homes and offices. Whatever type of deliveries drivers make, wages will vary widely across the country.
Circuit used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to rank the highest-paying states for delivery drivers by estimated average annual wages, also including the statistics for the total estimated employment of drivers in the state. Data were taken from three specific occupations as categorized by BLS: driver/sales workers, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, and light truck drivers. Data for Delaware’s employment doesn’t include an estimate for driver/sales workers. There are 3,162,630 Americans employed in delivery nationally, with an average hourly wage of $19.08, and an average annual wage of $39,689.
See the statistics below to find out how much delivery drivers make in your state or click through the national story for a look at how much delivery drivers make in all 50 states and Washington D.C. Keep reading to see which states are most and least lucrative for delivery drivers.
