Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,141
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$6,299
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,667
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
$39,440
Kept after tax
$33,141
Worth in national money
$36,667
State rank
13
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Mexico pays this job a middle wage of $39,440, ranking 13 of 46 states and sitting about 5.19% above the national middle.
- Measured against other jobs in New Mexico, this one sits low: 370 of 485 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Here is where New Mexico does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $39,440 you keep $33,141, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $36,667 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $40,400, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Mexico's median for personal care and service workers, all other is $39,440, about 5.19% above the national figure and 13 of 46 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Personal care and service workers, all other occupies position 370 of 485 in New Mexico's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- After federal, FICA and New Mexico income tax, retained pay for personal care and service workers, all other on $39,440 is $33,141. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $36,667 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 $40,400 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,130 |
| This salary | $39,440 |
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 | $33,141 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,870 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,812 |
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 | $38,533 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,191 |
| 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 $39,440. The published range is $26,080 up to $62,130, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Mexico the take-home figure of $33,141, from $39,440, 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 370 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $36,667, the adjusted value of that $39,440 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 370 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for personal care and service workers, all other in New Mexico the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $26,080 to $62,130. 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 $33,141 from $39,440. 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 370 of 485 locally.
- This $36,667 adjusted figure, worked from $39,440, 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 370 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 370 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $26,080, the highest tenth $62,130, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $36,667.
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, $33,141 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 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($26,080) and the ninetieth ($62,130) 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 $36,667 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 $33,141 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.