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title: "Average Salary in Albuquerque, NM"
description: "Mean $64,480, median $48,060 in the Albuquerque metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque, NM metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $64,480, median $48,060 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 404,700 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $50,300.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $29,500 |
| 25th | $35,910 |
| 50th | $48,060 |
| 75th | $77,220 |
| 90th | $117,170 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 95.5 |
| Housing (rents) | 89.2 |
| Goods | 96.1 |
| Utilities | 77.9 |
| Other services | 98.5 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $214,950
- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $202,820
- [Judge](https://nuecareer.com/careers/judge): $198,270
- [Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary): $196,730
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor): $185,910
- [Computer and Information Research Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-and-information-research-scientist): $183,460
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $177,280
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $176,900
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $160,930
- [Optometrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/optometrist): $160,830

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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