How much do walmart drivers make per mile

Salary Details for a Truck Driver at Walmart

Updated Aug 27, 2022

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$56,363/yr

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$49,801/yrBase Pay

$6,561/yrAdditional Pay

$40K$81K

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Published Jan. 24, 2019

Walmart announced Thursday it has raised the wages of its Florida truck drivers.

The increases means Walmart drivers in Florida can make an average salary of $87,500, according to the corporation. Specifically, Walmart says its drivers will receive a per-mile increase of a penny and a 50-cent increase in "activity pay," which is when drivers arrive and drop off goods. Drivers now have an all-in rate of 89 cents per mile.

"Our business is constantly changing, and it's important that our fleet of truck drivers remains the safest and best trained on the road every day," Chuck Carter, Walmart general transportation manager in Brooksville, said in a statement. "This wage increase is exciting, as it allows us the opportunity to find and keep those drivers that represent our principles and work to be the best at serving our stores, our customers and the places they call home."

Walmart has 8,000 drivers that travel 700 million miles to bring merchandise to the 4,7000 Walmart and Sam's Club locations across the country.

A commercial driver must have at least 30 months of full-time experience and no serious traffic violations in the last three years to qualify to be a driver for Walmart.

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Dive Brief:

  • Walmart raised pay for long-haul truck drivers, offering salaries of up to $110,000 in the first year, with the ability to earn more based on tenure and location, the company announced Thursday.
  • The largest U.S. retailer also launched a three-month training program for supply chain associates in Delaware and Texas to earn commercial driver's licenses and become Walmart drivers, according to the post on the company website.
  • "The average salary for a long haul driver is $56,491 a year," the company said, citing Glassdoor. "Walmart's starting wage can nearly double that."

Dive Insight:

The six-figure salaries and 12-week training program are Walmart's latest push to recruit for and retain its private fleet of about 12,000 drivers.

Previously, the average driver at Walmart made $87,500 in their first year, according to spokesperson Anne Hatfield. The company did not respond to questions about the average driver's salary beyond the first year, or whether overall driver pay would change with this news.

Seventeen drivers have graduated from the training programs in Sanger, Texas, and Dover, Delaware, Hatfield said. Walmart picks up the cost of earning a commercial driver's license, which can be $4,000 to $5,000, and pays drivers hourly while they train, she said.

Drivers who graduate from the program are not required to work for Walmart for any set amount of time or repay the costs if they quit, Hatfield said.

Walmart hopes to train between 400 and 800 new drivers through its new Fleet Development Program. It is currently open only to supply chain associates at or near the Sanger or Dover facilities. But Walmart plans to expand it this year to more supply chain workers and, eventually, to all company associates.

For those interested in driving a truck, it could provide a path to higher paying jobs.

The average hourly wage in Walmart's supply chain was more than $20 an hour, compared to about $16.40 an hour for store workers and "a little bit higher than that" at Sam's Club, CFO Brett Biggs said during the 2022 UBS Global Consumer & Retail Conference last month.

The company hired 4,500 truck drivers in 2021, more than at any point in the company's history, Hatfield said. She did not respond to a request for driver hiring or overall employment statistics for previous years.

"We will continue to hire based on need to support growth of the business," Hatfield said.

Fierce competition for drivers and high inflation are pushing employers to raise wages and provide other incentives. Across the trucking industry, employers are attempting to fill roughly 80,000 driver jobs, according to the American Trucking Associations.

Yellow Corp., which employs more than 30,000 drivers, increased its total spending on salaries, wages and employee benefits by $151.6 million last quarter, "primarily due to contractual wage rate increases and to a lesser extent salary and overtime wage increases," according to an SEC filing.

Driver pay per mile at Werner's Truckload Transportation Services increased 22% in Q4 due to driver wage increases, incentive recruiting bonuses and minimum pay guarantees, CFO John Steele said in a February earnings call. The median employee salary, excluding the CEO, was $86,370 as of Dec. 31, according to an SEC filing last week.

Derek Leathers, Werner president and CEO, said on the call that the recruitment and retention efforts are paying off. "Despite the significant driver headwinds, our strategic investment in sourcing, pay and driver amenities enabled us to expand our driver base," Leathers said.

How much do Walmart local truck drivers make?

As of Sep 28, 2022, the average annual pay for the Truck Driver Walmart jobs category in California is $55,386 a year.

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What do most truck drivers make per mile?

Average truck driver pay per mile is between 28 and 40 cents per mile. Most drivers complete between 2,000 and 3,000 miles per week. That translates into average weekly pay ranging from $560 to $1,200. If you drove all 52 weeks in a year at those rates, you would earn between $29,120 and $62,400.

How much do Walmart truck drivers make in Florida?

Average Walmart Driver hourly pay in Florida is approximately $19.95, which is 30% above the national average.