Santa Fe, NM Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Santa Fe, NM - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Santa Fe, NM moved from $47,180 in May 2024 to $48,710 in May 2025 (+3.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Santa Fe, NM sits +0.1 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Santa Fe, NM
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive publishes $50,170 here versus $47,540 nationally (+5.5%; 2,410metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $35,960 locally versus $35,410 nationally (+1.6%).
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$50,170 in Santa Fe, NM sits 5.5% above the national Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive median of $47,540 (2,410 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$35,960 in Santa Fe, NM sits 1.6% above the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,320 published local jobs).
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Santa Fe, NM; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 42140 · Santa Fe, NM $61K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #165/528
- RPP-MID 98.8
- OCC-MID 254 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $345K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE +0.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Cheyenne, WY
- BOOK-MOST 248 rows · May 2025
Read with Cheyenne, WY (+$38 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Santa Fe, NM
Employment scale inside Santa Fe, NM's top-pay list
Lawyers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside Santa Fe, NM's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 530 jobs · $122,430
- 2. Managers, All Other 380 jobs · $119,310
- 3. Financial Managers 300 jobs · $126,380
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 280 jobs · $117,060
- 5. Sales Managers 190 jobs · $146,510
- 6. Software Developers 180 jobs · $112,380
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 160 jobs · $136,130
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $144,250
- 9. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 140 jobs · $115,190
- 10. Pharmacists 110 jobs · $150,580
- 11. Personal Financial Advisors 110 jobs · $138,790
- 12. Physicians, All Other 90 jobs · $234,790
- 13. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 90 jobs · $120,030
- 14. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 90 jobs · $114,690
- 15. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $124,870
- 16. Veterinarians 70 jobs · $129,380
- 17. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $345,070
- 18. Dentists, General 60 jobs · $154,960
Occupations Tracked
254
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$61,277
employment-weighted, 248 complete rows
Top Salary
$345,070
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
98.8
1% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Santa Fe, NM
Lowest Paying Jobs in Santa Fe, NM
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $29,940 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $30,360 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $30,430 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,810 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $30,990 |
| Firefighters | $31,200 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $31,520 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $31,540 |
| Parking Attendants | $31,990 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $32,260 |
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 ($61,277 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.