Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,879
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$24,531
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$83,950
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
$100,410
Kept after tax
$75,879
Worth in national money
$83,950
State rank
28
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Mexico pays this job around $100,410 at the midpoint, 28 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 485 occupations New Mexico reports, this job comes in at 60 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Mexico is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $100,410 the take-home is $75,879; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $83,950 would nationally. The average lands at $85,860, below the middle of the range.
- For electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay the New Mexico median is $100,410, ranking 28 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay ranks 60 of 485 occupations by median in New Mexico, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in New Mexico, on $100,410, is $75,879 — equivalent to $83,950 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $85,860 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,570 |
| This salary | $100,410 |
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 | $75,879 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,468 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,172 |
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 | $95,308 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,000 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Mexico earn less than $100,410. The published range is $49,150 up to $109,570, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $75,879 take-home in New Mexico comes from $100,410. 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 60 of 485.
- Two cautions on $83,950, the adjusted value of that $100,410 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 60 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in New Mexico the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,150 to $109,570. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $75,879, from $100,410, 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 60 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 28 of 48 for it.
- This $83,950 adjusted figure, worked from $100,410, 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 60 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 60 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $85,860 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $49,150 at the bottom tenth to $109,570 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $83,950 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, $75,879 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $85,860. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($49,150 to $109,570) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New Mexico rather than a national figure.
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 $83,950 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 $75,879 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.