Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $27,500 here versus $35,800 nationally (-23.2%; 4,900metro-area jobs). Next is Cashiers at $29,690 locally versus $32,880 nationally (-9.7%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$27,500 in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area sits 23.2% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (4,900 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$29,690 in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area sits 9.7% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,310 published local jobs).
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$47,550 in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area sits 0.0% above the national Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive median of $47,540 (3,250 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 3500006 · Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #151/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 273 occs
- TOP-LEAD Emergency Medi… · $435K
- EMP-MIX Mechanical E…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Lincoln, NE
- BOOK-MOST 270 rows · May 2025
Read with Lincoln, NE ($18 on published-row mean) · Understanding BLS wage data
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 Northern New Mexico nonmetr…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Mechanical Engineers and Information Security Analysts lead published employment inside Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Mechanical Engineers 1,120 jobs · $157,710
- 2. Information Security Analysts 870 jobs · $157,660
- 3. Engineers, All Other 630 jobs · $162,070
- 4. Project Management Specialists 590 jobs · $157,300
- 5. Software Developers 480 jobs · $125,870
- 6. Managers, All Other 350 jobs · $132,300
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 340 jobs · $127,820
- 8. Physicians, All Other 230 jobs · $255,530
- 9. Physicists 200 jobs · $160,090
- 10. Pharmacists 180 jobs · $151,860
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 140 jobs · $176,710
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 120 jobs · $133,440
- 13. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $156,420
- 14. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $124,300
- 15. Family Medicine Physicians 90 jobs · $308,590
- 16. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 90 jobs · $125,680
- 17. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $135,200
- 18. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $205,370
Occupations Tracked
273
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$62,198
employment-weighted, 270 complete rows
Top Salary
$434,980
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Top-pay occupations in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $26,350 |
| Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand | $26,460 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $26,730 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $27,090 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $27,500 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,580 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $27,660 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,530 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $28,560 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,960 |
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 ($62,198 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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