Las Cruces, NM Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 90.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Las Cruces, NM moved from $38,620 in May 2024 to $42,070 in May 2025 (+8.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Las Cruces, NM sits +5.8 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Las Cruces, NM
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $27,840 here versus $35,800 nationally (-22.2%; 6,430metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $30,460 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-14.0%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$27,840 in Las Cruces, NM sits 22.2% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (6,430 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$30,460 in Las Cruces, NM sits 14.0% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,110 published local jobs).
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$41,030 in Las Cruces, NM sits 13.7% below the national Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive median of $47,540 (2,360 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$27,560 in Las Cruces, NM sits 11.7% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,870 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Las Cruces, NM; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 29740 · Las Cruces, NM $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #400/528
- RPP-LOW 90.2
- OCC-MID 274 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $387K
- EMP-MIX Managers, Al…
- TREND-AHEAD +5.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Dalton, GA
- BOOK-MOST 270 rows · May 2025
Read with Dalton, GA (+$24 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Las Cruces, NM
Where Las Cruces, NM already employs the upper wage tier
Managers, All Other and Engineers, All Other lead published employment inside Las Cruces, NM's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Managers, All Other 310 jobs · $115,920
- 2. Engineers, All Other 220 jobs · $121,510
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 210 jobs · $131,990
- 4. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 210 jobs · $114,590
- 5. Physical Therapists 200 jobs · $120,350
- 6. Lawyers 190 jobs · $110,140
- 7. Physicians, All Other 170 jobs · $387,450
- 8. Computer Occupations, All Other 170 jobs · $109,430
- 9. Financial Managers 160 jobs · $117,540
- 10. Operations Research Analysts 130 jobs · $114,150
- 11. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $135,900
- 12. Family Medicine Physicians 100 jobs · $228,040
- 13. Physician Assistants 100 jobs · $141,350
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $128,360
- 15. Computer Hardware Engineers 90 jobs · $117,150
- 16. Dentists, General 80 jobs · $207,000
- 17. Computer and Information Research Scientists 80 jobs · $115,610
- 18. School Psychologists 80 jobs · $110,360
Occupations Tracked
274
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$53,371
employment-weighted, 270 complete rows
Top Salary
$387,450
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
90.2
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Las Cruces, NM, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Managers, All Other | $115,920 |
| 2 | Engineers, All Other | $121,510 |
| 3 | Nurse Practitioners | $131,990 |
| 4 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $114,590 |
| 5 | Physical Therapists | $120,350 |
| 6 | Lawyers | $110,140 |
| 7 | Physicians, All Other | $387,450 |
| 8 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $109,430 |
| 9 | Financial Managers | $117,540 |
| 10 | Operations Research Analysts | $114,150 |
| 11 | Pharmacists | $135,900 |
| 12 | Family Medicine Physicians | $228,040 |
| 13 | Physician Assistants | $141,350 |
| 14 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $128,360 |
| 15 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $117,150 |
| 16 | Dentists, General | $207,000 |
| 17 | Computer and Information Research Scientists | $115,610 |
| 18 | School Psychologists | $110,360 |
| 19 | Aerospace Engineers | $136,860 |
| 20 | Information Security Analysts | $113,550 |
| 21 | Human Resources Managers | $108,690 |
| 22 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $170,990 |
| 23 | Veterinarians | $124,640 |
| 24 | Natural Sciences Managers | $119,430 |
| 25 | Physicists | $112,400 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Las Cruces, NM
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $26,480 |
| Demonstrators and Product Promoters | $27,120 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,220 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,560 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,700 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $27,840 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $28,100 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $28,200 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $28,360 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,390 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NM
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside NM. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,371 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.