New Mexico · BLS May 2025
Also called healthcare administrator, hospital administrator. SOC 11-9111.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 3,150 medical and health services managers working in New Mexico. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal, state and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · New Mexico
$124,300A year, or $59.76 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $78,520 | $37.75 |
| 25th percentile | $97,740 | $46.99 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $124,300 | $59.76 |
| 75th percentile | $157,780 | $75.86 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $204,420 | $98.28 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $134,280 | $64.56 |
Method occupation-wage-v1Data bls-oews-2025-05-v1, us-tax-2026-v1, bea-rpp-2024-v1, census-acs5-2024-v1
A $124,300 salary in New Mexico, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in New Mexico sit at 92.2 against a national average of 100, so $124,300 earned here buys what $134,798 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for medical or health services managers in New Mexico is $124,300 a year, or $59.76 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $124,300, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $91,448 a year, or roughly $7,621 a month.
That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 26.4%.
New Mexico takes $4,777 of it in state income tax.
Yes. The median in New Mexico is 0.4% above the national median of $123,860.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in New Mexico sit at 92.2 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 1.94 times the median household income of $64,059. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in New Mexico run at 92.2 against a national average of 100, with rents at 73.6, so $124,300 here buys about what $134,798 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $204,420 a year or more, against $78,520 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of New Mexico someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 3,150 of these jobs in New Mexico for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 6% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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