Truck Driver Pay per Mile Calculator

Most over-the-road drivers are paid by the mile, so a job offer is usually quoted in cents per mile. This calculator turns that rate into weekly and yearly gross pay, adds stop pay and detention, and shows what you really earn per mile driven and per hour worked — the numbers that make two offers comparable.

How to use this tool

1. Enter the rate per mile from the offer or your settlement.
2. Enter the paid miles in a typical week, and the actual odometer miles if they differ.
3. Add stop pay, paid detention hours and any other weekly pay.
4. Enter your on-duty hours per week and the weeks you work in a year.

Formula

Weekly pay = Rate × Paid miles + Stops × Stop pay + Detention hours × Detention rate + Other pay

Yearly pay = Weekly pay × Weeks worked

Effective rate = Weekly pay ÷ Actual miles driven

Paid miles are the miles the carrier pays on. Many carriers pay practical or "short" miles from a routing program, which are usually fewer than the miles the odometer records, so the effective rate per mile driven is lower than the quoted rate.

Example

At $0.62 a mile for 2,500 paid miles, mileage pay is $1,550 a week. Two extra stops at $25 and two hours of detention at $20 add $90, for $1,640 a week. Over 50 weeks that is $82,000 a year. If the odometer shows 2,650 miles, the effective rate is about $0.619 per mile driven, and over 60 on-duty hours it works out to $27.33 an hour.