Industrial Machinery Mechanics in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,243
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$11,427
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,480
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
$60,670
Kept after tax
$49,243
Worth in national money
$54,480
State rank
47
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Mexico pays this job a middle wage of $60,670, 47 of 51 states and about 5.97% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 209 among 485 occupations New Mexico publishes pay for.
- Here is where New Mexico does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $60,670 you keep $49,243, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $54,480 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $63,550, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Mexico's $60,670 median for industrial machinery mechanics places it 47 of 51 states, about 5.97% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 209 of 485 in New Mexico places industrial machinery mechanics 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.
- After federal, FICA and New Mexico income tax, retained pay for industrial machinery mechanics on $60,670 is $49,243. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $54,480 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 $63,550 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Industrial Machinery Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,480 |
| This salary | $60,670 |
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 | $49,243 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,928 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,071 |
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 | $58,572 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,505 |
| 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 $60,670. The published range is $41,290 up to $84,480, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Mexico the take-home figure of $49,243, from $60,670, 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 209 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $54,480, the adjusted value of that $60,670 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 209 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for industrial machinery mechanics in New Mexico the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $41,290 to $84,480. 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 $49,243 from $60,670. 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 209 of 485 locally.
- This $54,480 adjusted figure, worked from $60,670, 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 209 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 209 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 $63,550 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $41,290 and the top tenth $84,480, so most people doing this work in New Mexico sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $54,480 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and New Mexico adds its own income tax on top — which is why $49,243 of this wage survives to your account.
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 $63,550. 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 ($41,290 to $84,480) 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 $54,480 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 $49,243 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.