The local work report
Work in New Mexico
22,232
Live openings our index could see in New Mexico.
Counted exactly, against live rows, . Not a projection and not an annual average. A posting counts if its source still listed it at the most recent crawl.
2,320
10.4% of openings in New Mexico
read as entry level, on our reading of the posting text.
That label is ours, not the employer’s. We read it from the posting, and it is not perfect: in a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of postings we call entry level carry a senior-sounding word in the title, and some of those are fine (“Shift Supervisor Trainee” really is a trainee role). Treat it as a good guide, not a guarantee.
The other 19,912 openings in New Mexico read as expecting experience a student does not have yet, which is a fact about the route rather than about them.
Which fields are hiring
Ranked by live openings. Shares are of the 20,020 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
6,59632.9%
Transportation and driving
2,61513.1%
Retail
1,8199.1%
Sales and marketing
1,3756.9%
Technology and software
1,0785.4%
Customer service
1,0615.3%
Childcare and education
9644.8%
Manufacturing
7974.0%
Food service
7573.8%
Skilled trades
6993.5%
Office and administration
4182.1%
Warehouse and logistics
4032.0%
Finance and accounting
3281.6%
Hospitality
3081.5%
Business and operations
2361.2%
General labor
1840.9%
Security and safety
1840.9%
Beauty and wellness
880.4%
Creative and media
650.3%
Engineering
170.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
150.1%
Community and social services
110.1%
Science and research
20.0%
A further 2,212 live openings in New Mexico carry no field in our index. They are real postings we have not classified, and they are excluded from the shares above rather than distributed into them.
Where the work is
The 12 places in New Mexico with the most live openings. For most students the honest answer to “can I do this without moving?” is on this list.
Place names are exactly as the employer wrote them and are not normalized, so one city can appear under several labels and a big metro can be split across them. Treat a row as a floor for that place, not as its total.
Albuquerque
2,693
La Cienga
2,270
Alameda
1,410
Las Cruces
1,088
Village of Los Ranchos
945
Carlsbad
634
Sandia Base
457
Farmington
450
Santa Fe
446
Los Lunas
394
Panorama Heights
386
Alamogordo
307
How much experience these postings ask for
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in. Every live posting gets one of these three, so unlike the field breakdown above there is no “did not state” residue here — which is itself the sign that the label is inferred rather than reported.
- 2,320
- Reads as entry level
- 16,580
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 3,332
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for New Mexico at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the New Mexico labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of New Mexico is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 105 indexed openings per 10,000 residents here, against a median of 47 across the states we can read. That is a fact about our index, not about New Mexico’s economy, and the two are easy to confuse. Across all 52 the ratio between the best and worst covered is more than twentyfold, so comparing one state’s total against another’s tells you more about us than about them.
It is a floor, not a total. Nationally the index held 1,537,993 live US openings, of which 1,308,341 carry a state and 229,652 do not. Those unplaced postings are real work that we cannot put on a map, so every state figure on this page understates what exists.
Some of these postings will already be filled. Employers do not reliably take listings down, so a live posting means “still listed by its source”, not “confirmed open”. Anybody who tells a student otherwise is selling them something.