Average CPM pay and benefits for my situation?

Your situation is average to slightly above normal.
Now your buddy. Is he W-2 or 1099? If he is making quite a bit more than you, just what is his pay situation?

 

3 years
Clean record
Willing to be out 3 weeks
$100,000 + is a real possibility
Where are you and what are you willing to do.
@Chinatown this guy has a awesome resume where would you recommend he work?

 

I can only compare that to what I’m getting paid after 2 1/2 years with my company (after 20 years of bus driving): 48 cpm (going up to 50 in January) plus $2k quarterly bonuses, decent benefits, and home every weekend.

Sure, I could probably make more if I really looked, but I like the company, they don’t micromanage me, and I live two and a half miles from my home terminal.

 

It looks like you make around $58,075 a year based on miles and cpm you said. Add in $8k for bonus. I'm getting back into trucking after a decade and should make about $20k more than you. You know more than me about OTR and deserve to make as much or preferably more than someone who is basically a new guy.
Good luck.

 

Obviously I'm in a vastly different part of the country with a much lower cost of living... Eastern Idaho to be specific. But we have similar levels of experience (at least experience that is documented, I've been in and out of trucks for nearly 20 years... But little to none of it is documented or can be verified). I recently switched from doing OTR to local/regional within the same company, in order to be home more.

When I quit going OTR I was making 41 cpm base pay, but I usually ran at least 11k to 13k miles a month which earned me an additional 2 to 4 cpm in the form of a bonus... I figure I was averaging about 44 cpm. I ran from the Rockies to the Midwest and back every week, out 5 to 8 days with 2 to 4 days home between runs.

Since then my company gave all drivers a raise... OTR guys got a 3 cpm raise. If I was still OTR I would be making 44 cpm base + mileage bonus. Local Regional guys got a $1.50/hr raise. I had negotiated a slightly higher hourly rate than other guys with similar time on the job as me, based on my above average skill set and ability to handle abnormal situations easily... So the raise was a very pleasant surprise... a cherry on top, so to speak.

I would surmise that you are probably about in the average pay range for drivers of your experience in your area... Maybe on the lower side of the average, but not by more than a couple of pennies per mile.

Edit: in 2019 I grossed just over $61k, in 2020 that came down some due to me needing to take more time off to finalize the purchase of my house, the birth of my son, and me simply not wanting to run quite as hard. So for 2020 I grossed just over $51k