- The middle half earn between $28.41 and $45.62 an hour.
- New Mexico is 44th of the 50 states and DC, in the bottom ten for this trade.
- New Mexico pays more than 2 of its 5 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 6,790 construction supervisors on payrolls in New Mexico.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $134.02 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in New Mexico, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $22.78 | $47,370 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $28.41 | $59,090 | $30.48 |
| Median | $36.12 | $75,130 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $45.62 | $94,890 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $63.10 | $131,250 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $38.91 | $80,930 | $41.56 |
Pay spreads out a lot in New Mexico. The bottom tenth earn $22.78 an hour or less while the top tenth earn $63.10 or more, a gap of 2.8 times against 2.4 nationally. Where a construction supervisor sits on that range matters as much as the state.
The bottom of the scale is lower than nationally ($22.78 against $25.62) while the top is higher ($63.10 against $61.66), so the climb from new hire to top earner is longer here.
The average wage, $38.91, sits 8% above the median. A smaller group of higher earners pulls the average up, so the median is the better guide to what a typical construction supervisor makes.
How New Mexico compares with other states
Over a full year, the New Mexico median of $75,130 is $4,790 less than the national $79,920.
In the state ranking, New Mexico sits 44th, between North Carolina ($36.19) and Texas ($35.83). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Against its neighboring states, New Mexico is in the middle: Arizona, Colorado and Utah pay more, and Oklahoma and Texas pay less.
BLS wages are not adjusted for living costs. Lower pay often comes with lower housing costs, so the gap in take-home value can be smaller than the gap in wages.
How many construction supervisors work in New Mexico
About 6,790 construction supervisors work on payrolls in New Mexico, 0.8% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 35th largest count among the states.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 7.8 of every 1,000 jobs in New Mexico, 1.5 times the national share.
What a contracting business in New Mexico should charge
A lower wage helps the price less than you might expect, because the overhead does not shrink with it. Here is a contracting business in New Mexico paying the state median of $36.12, on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers: 40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit.
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $36.12 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $80,877 |
| Break-even rate | ($80,877 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $113.92 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $113.92 ÷ 0.85 | $134.02 |
That is $134.02 per billable hour, 3.7 times the wage, and $4.04 less than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $45.62 in New Mexico, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $150.70.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $28.41, the rate only drops to $120.48.
Overhead, at $60 of every billed hour, and the unbilled hours move this rate more than a raise does. A dollar more in wages adds about $1.76 to the rate.
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Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.