New Mexico · NAICS 624 · Annual, 2025
Social Assistance in New Mexico
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 624 in New Mexico, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Social Assistance (NAICS 624) employed about 43,000 people in New Mexico across roughly 7,069 establishments, with average annual pay of $34,190.
Employment in Social Assistance in New Mexico grew 20.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in New Mexico as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.47). Average pay in the industry is 45.9% below the all-industries average in New Mexico. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New Mexico are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 43,000Employment, 2025
- 7,069Establishments
- $34,190Avg. annual pay
- 4.9%Share of New Mexico jobs
- 1.47Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 20,300; 2005 20,600; 2006 21,600; 2007 23,800; 2008 25,800; 2009 27,300; 2010 28,200; 2011 28,000; 2012 28,600; 2013 29,200; 2014 30,200; 2015 32,900; 2016 34,200; 2017 35,400; 2018 35,900; 2019 36,300; 2020 35,800; 2021 37,100; 2022 38,300; 2023 39,400; 2024 41,000; 2025 43,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42,951 | 7,069 | $34,190 | 4.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 40,959 | 6,474 | $32,535 | 4.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 39,385 | 6,649 | $30,591 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 38,330 | 6,694 | $28,070 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 37,087 | 6,356 | $26,500 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 35,761 | 6,523 | $25,261 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 36,343 | 6,110 | $23,373 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2018 | 35,890 | 5,541 | $22,539 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 35,432 | 5,086 | $21,900 | 3.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 34,193 | 4,664 | $21,621 | 4.0% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Social Assistance in New Mexico, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for social assistance in New Mexico. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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