Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,504
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$15,386
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,727
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
$73,890
Kept after tax
$58,504
Worth in national money
$64,727
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Mexico's middle earner gets $73,890, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 3.53% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New Mexico, this sits in the middle: 146 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where New Mexico does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $73,890 you keep $58,504, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $64,727 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $74,010, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, New Mexico sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $73,890, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 3.53% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants ranks 146 of 485 occupations in New Mexico by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and New Mexico income tax, retained pay for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants on $73,890 is $58,504. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $64,727 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $74,010 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,710 |
| This salary | $73,890 |
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 | $58,504 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,812 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,148 |
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 | $70,610 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,967 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $73,890 as a midpoint for New Mexico, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,000 and the ninetieth is $92,710 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $58,504 take-home in New Mexico comes from $73,890. 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 146 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Mexico, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $64,727, the adjusted value of that $73,890 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 146 of 485 in the state.
- The New Mexico median of $73,890 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,000 to $92,710. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $58,504, from $73,890, 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 146 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Mexico, so $64,727 — the adjusted value of that $73,890 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 146 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $52,000 and the top tenth $92,710, so most people doing this work in New Mexico sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. New Mexico is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $64,727 in national terms.
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, $58,504 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($52,000 to $92,710) 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 $64,727 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 $58,504 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.