New Mexico · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025
Construction in New Mexico
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in New Mexico, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 59,300 people in New Mexico across roughly 5,785 establishments, with average annual pay of $70,610.
Employment in Construction in New Mexico grew 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in New Mexico as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.25). 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.
- 59,300Employment, 2025
- 5,785Establishments
- $70,610Avg. annual pay
- 6.8%Share of New Mexico jobs
- 1.25Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 53,900; 2005 58,000; 2006 62,800; 2007 62,900; 2008 61,200; 2009 51,600; 2010 47,500; 2011 45,800; 2012 44,800; 2013 45,900; 2014 46,500; 2015 47,300; 2016 47,100; 2017 49,200; 2018 50,800; 2019 53,800; 2020 52,300; 2021 51,400; 2022 53,400; 2023 56,700; 2024 57,600; 2025 59,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59,288 | 5,785 | $70,612 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 57,612 | 5,782 | $67,932 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 56,744 | 5,650 | $64,402 | 6.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 53,428 | 5,844 | $58,430 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 51,425 | 5,709 | $54,957 | 1.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 52,252 | 5,735 | $53,019 | 2.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 53,760 | 5,821 | $51,705 | 5.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 50,845 | 5,586 | $48,992 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 49,243 | 5,390 | $46,100 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 47,087 | 5,456 | $44,197 | 0.4% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of construction | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 236 | Construction of Buildings | 11,764 | 19.8% | 1.13 | pub. |
| 237 | Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | 17,449 | 29.4% | 2.28 | pub. |
| 238 | Specialty Trade Contractors | 30,075 | 50.7% | 1.03 | pub. |
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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Construction in New Mexico, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for construction in New Mexico. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.