Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area

Highest-Paying Occupations in Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area

Figures describe the Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town. Occupations are ranked by published median annual wage; occupations where BLS suppressed the annual median or publishes only hourly wages are not ranked (11 such occupations here).

Top 25 of 273 occupations

Occupations with the highest published median annual wages in the Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area, May 2025
#	Occupation	Median annual	Median hourly	Employment
1	Emergency Medicine Physicians	$434,980	$209.12	40
2	Family Medicine Physicians	$308,590	$148.36	90
3	Physicians, All Other	$255,530	$122.85	230
4	Dentists, General	$205,370	$98.73	50
5	Computer and Information Systems Managers	$176,710	$84.96	140
6	Engineers, All Other	$162,070	$77.92	630
7	Physicists	$160,090	$76.97	200
8	Mechanical Engineers	$157,710	$75.82	1,120
9	Information Security Analysts	$157,660	$75.80	870
10	Purchasing Managers	$157,410	$75.68	40
11	Project Management Specialists	$157,300	$75.63	590
12	Marketing Managers	$156,420	$75.20	100
13	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products	$152,500	$73.32	30
14	Pharmacists	$151,860	$73.01	180
15	Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors	$148,780	$71.53	50
16	Physician Assistants	$135,200	$65.00	60
17	Nurse Practitioners	$133,440	$64.15	120
18	Computer Network Architects	$132,570	$63.74	50
19	Managers, All Other	$132,300	$63.60	350
20	Medical and Health Services Managers	$127,820	$61.45	340
21	Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates	$126,960	$61.04	40
22	Software Developers	$125,870	$60.51	480
23	Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	$125,680	$60.43	90
24	Human Resources Managers	$124,300	$59.76	100
25	Public Relations Managers	$119,840	$57.62	40

The full list of every published occupation here is on the Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.