SALARY · CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS AND JAILERS · NEW MEXICO

Correctional Officers and Jailers salary in New Mexico

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For correctional officers and jailers in New Mexico, BLS put the median at $47,940 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$47,940

$23 per hour at the median · That is $11,000 (18.7 percent) below the national median of $58,940 for this occupation.

$48,570Mean annual salary

$23Mean hourly wage

$2,740People employed in this job in New Mexico

Salary range

25th: $42,830Median: $47,94075th: $52,370

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$42,830
Median (50th percentile)	$47,940
75th percentile	$52,370
Mean	$48,570

The middle half of workers earned from $42,830 to $52,370 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED PAY BEFORE STATE TAX

$40,700 a year

$3,392 a month

Federal tax $3,573 · FICA $3,667

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for New Mexico is not included, because the full 2026 state table for New Mexico has not been verified in this build. Treat this figure as before state tax, not as a final take-home figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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