Automotive Body and Related Repairers in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,849
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$8,411
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,088
New Mexico costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Mexico — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$48,260
Kept after tax
$39,849
Worth in national money
$44,088
State rank
46
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in New Mexico. The middle earner gets $48,260. That is 46 of 51 states, and about 12.08% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 485 occupations New Mexico reports figures for, this is number 294.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $48,260 you keep $39,849 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $44,088 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $53,940, since top earners drag the number up.
- For automotive body and related repairers, New Mexico sits in the lower band at $48,260, ranking 46 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 12.08%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In New Mexico's occupational distribution, automotive body and related repairers sits at 294 of 485 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in New Mexico is $39,849 after the full tax stack, from $48,260. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $44,088 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $53,940 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,260 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,060 |
| This salary | $48,260 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New Mexico | $39,849 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,957 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,940 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $46,881 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,346 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of automotive body and related repairers in New Mexico earn under $48,260 and half over. The published range runs $36,220 at the tenth percentile to $78,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,849 take-home in New Mexico comes from $48,260. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 294 of 485.
- Two cautions on $44,088, the adjusted value of that $48,260 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Mexico. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 294 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive body and related repairers in New Mexico, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,220 to $78,060; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $39,849, from $48,260, assumes a single New Mexico filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 294 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 51 for it.
- This $44,088 adjusted figure, worked from $48,260, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 294 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 294 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,940, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,220, the highest tenth $78,060, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in New Mexico sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $44,088 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New Mexico's own levy, $39,849 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New Mexico is $53,940. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,220) and the ninetieth ($78,060) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
New Mexico's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $44,088 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $39,849 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Mexico income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.