Best jobs in Santa Fe, NM
The best-scoring occupations in the Santa Fe, NM metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Santa Fe, NM (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Santa Fe, NM pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$144,250 vs $132,300 · +9.0%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
20
$50,170
-1.6%
2,410
202,800
52
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#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
255
$58,700
+3.1%
21
292
$54,650
+3.7%
19
299
$83,440
+1.9%
19
319
$68,200
+0.3%
19
333
—†
+6.3%
18†
408
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
—†
+4.6%
16†
417
$62,030
+2.3%
16
551
—†
-13.7%
12†
552
—†
+2.0%
12†
582
—†
-3.8%
10†
586
—†
-4.3%
10†
592
—†
-12.1%
10†
605
—†
-12.0%
9†
Live jobs in Santa Fe, NM
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No placeholder listings · nothing invented Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.