New Accounts Clerks in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,215
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$9,165
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,705
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
$51,380
Kept after tax
$42,215
Worth in national money
$46,705
State rank
8
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for new accounts clerks is strong here. New Mexico's middle earner gets $51,380, putting the state 8 of 45 — about 7.78% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New Mexico, this sits in the middle: 260 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $51,380 you keep $42,215 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $46,705 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $47,990.
- For new accounts clerks, New Mexico sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $51,380, ranking 8 of 45 and running about 7.78% 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.
- New accounts clerks ranks 260 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.
- Retained pay in New Mexico is $42,215 after the full tax stack, from $51,380. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $46,705 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,990 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: New Accounts Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,920 |
| This salary | $51,380 |
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 | $42,215 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,464 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,978 |
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 | $49,825 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,392 |
| 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 $51,380. The published range is $35,080 up to $57,920, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Mexico's $42,215, worked from $51,380. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 260 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,705 uses one figure for the whole of New Mexico. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 485 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 260.
- Reported values are medians; for new accounts clerks in New Mexico the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,080 to $57,920. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Mexico take-home of $42,215, on $51,380 for work ranking 260 of 485 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 260 of 485 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,705, worked from $51,380, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Mexico address, on work sitting at 260 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 $47,990, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,080 and the top tenth $57,920, 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 $46,705 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, $42,215 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $47,990. 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 ($35,080 to $57,920) 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 $46,705 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 $42,215 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.