New Mexico trade pay

Statewide BLS medians for New Mexico are not published yet, so no pay ranking appears here. The 10-trade table above still lists annual openings and apprentice counts for every trade, and medians fill in as each state pull completes. City-level BLS pay is published for 18 states on metro pages.

The BLS has not published statewide medians for New Mexico yet, so the top-paying trade cannot be ranked from official figures. Demand is strongest for maintenance workers, with about 980 statewide annual openings projected. State medians will appear here as the BLS publishes them.

Projections Central expects about 4,260 trade openings a year in New Mexico from 2024 to 2034, across the 10 tracked trades. Maintenance workers lead with about 980 a year, followed by landscapers at 860. Most openings come from retirements and turnover, not new job growth.

Start with a registered apprenticeship: paid on-the-job training plus classroom instruction, with wages rising as you learn. The DOL counted 153 active trade apprentices in New Mexico in FY2024, across 8 published trades, including 70 electricians. Programs run three to five years; find open programs at Apprenticeship.gov.

None of the 25 tracked metros are in New Mexico, so city-level pay rankings are not published here. The statewide table above shows annual openings and apprenticeship counts for all 10 trades instead. Metro pay pages cover 18 states; New Mexico figures are statewide only.