Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers in New Mexico
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,423
after federal, FICA and New Mexico tax
Tax takes
$11,807
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,786
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
$62,230
Kept after tax
$50,423
Worth in national money
$55,786
State rank
29
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Mexico sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $62,230, ranking 29 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in New Mexico, this sits in the middle: 199 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Mexico is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $62,230 the take-home is $50,423; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $55,786 would nationally. The average comes to $68,760, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Mexico occupies the middle band for property, real estate, and community association managers: a median of $62,230, ranking 29 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Property, real estate, and community association managers ranks 199 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.
- Post-tax income for property, real estate, and community association managers in New Mexico, on $62,230, is $50,423 — equivalent to $55,786 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $68,760 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,120 |
| This salary | $62,230 |
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 | $50,423 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,182 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,087 |
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 | $60,041 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,524 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of property, real estate, and community association managers in New Mexico earn under $62,230 and half over. The published range runs $40,720 at the tenth percentile to $100,120 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Mexico the take-home figure of $50,423, from $62,230, 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 199 of 485 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $55,786 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 199.
- Figures are distribution medians for property, real estate, and community association managers in New Mexico, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,720 to $100,120; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for New Mexico is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,423 from $62,230. 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 199 of 485 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $55,786, worked from $62,230, 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 199 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 $68,760 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $40,720, the highest tenth $100,120, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $55,786 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 $50,423 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 $68,760. 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 ($40,720) and the ninetieth ($100,120) 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 $55,786 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 $50,423 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.