Tennessee · BLS May 2025
Also called delivery driver. SOC 53-3031.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 9,620 driver/sales workers working in Tennessee. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Tennessee
$42,220A year, or $20.30 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $20,800 | $10.00 |
| 25th percentile | $35,730 | $17.18 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $42,220 | $20.30 |
| 75th percentile | $45,090 | $21.68 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $51,610 | $24.81 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $39,810 | $19.14 |
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A $42,220 salary in Tennessee, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Tennessee sit at 91.9 against a national average of 100, so $42,220 earned here buys what $45,956 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for driver/sales workers in Tennessee is $42,220 a year, or $20.30 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $42,220, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $36,104 a year, or roughly $3,009 a month.
That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 14.5%.
Tennessee levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.
Yes. The median in Tennessee is 8.9% above the national median of $38,770.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Tennessee sit at 91.9 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.61 times the median household income of $69,595. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Tennessee run at 91.9 against a national average of 100, with rents at 79.1, so $42,220 here buys about what $45,956 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $51,610 a year or more, against $20,800 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Tennessee someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 9,620 of these jobs in Tennessee for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 12% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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