Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,704
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$11,576
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,991
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
$61,280
Kept after tax
$49,704
Worth in national money
$54,991
State rank
36
of 45 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 $61,280. That is 36 of 45 states, and about 7.32% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 205 among 485 occupations New Mexico publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $61,280 you keep $49,704 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,991 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $70,270, since top earners drag the number up.
- For industrial engineering technologists and technicians, New Mexico sits in the lower band at $61,280, ranking 36 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 7.32%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 205 of 485 in New Mexico places industrial engineering technologists and technicians in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in New Mexico is $49,704 after the full tax stack, from $61,280. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,991 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $70,270 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,370 |
| This salary | $61,280 |
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 | $49,704 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,418 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,078 |
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 | $59,146 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,513 |
| 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 $61,280. The published range is $51,340 up to $103,370, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Mexico the take-home figure of $49,704, from $61,280, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 205 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $54,991, the adjusted value of that $61,280 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 205 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for industrial engineering technologists and technicians in New Mexico the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $51,340 to $103,370. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for New Mexico is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $49,704 from $61,280. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 205 of 485 locally.
- This $54,991 adjusted figure, worked from $61,280, 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 205 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 205 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 $70,270 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $51,340 and the top tenth $103,370 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $54,991 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, $49,704 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $70,270. 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 ($51,340) and the ninetieth ($103,370) 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 $54,991 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 $49,704 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.