2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Light Truck Drivers

Macon-Bibb County, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 600.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 53-3033
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$45,130 · 50th
$25,21010th
$32,65025th
$45,13050th
$57,80075th
$91,26090th

That is the medianhalf of light truck drivers in Macon earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$45,130 in Macon buys what $51,000 buys across the country as a whole.

Macon's regional price parity is 88.5 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Georgia

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Macon
Dalton$50,340$56,00089.8+9.9%
Gainesville$48,010$49,60096.8−2.7%
Athens$45,800$49,10093.3−3.8%
Macon This page$45,130$51,00088.5
Atlanta$44,960$44,900100.1−11.9%
Savannah$44,150$46,40095.2−9.0%
Albany$42,180$48,10087.7−5.6%
Augusta$41,100$44,70091.9−12.3%

Price parity and difference against Macon are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 18.6% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — light truck drivers in Macon earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
600 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 53-3033, Light Truck Drivers. Mapped to our taxonomy as light-truck-drivers.

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