How much do Chemical Engineers make in Albuquerque, NM?

Percentile spread

For Chemical Engineers, the published 10th percentile is $70,100 and the 90th percentile is $205,360. The difference is $135,260, which is 82.8% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $86,100 to the 75th at $163,380, covers $77,280.

The mean annual wage is $143,640, which sits below the median of $163,380. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Albuquerque, NM median is 30.7% higher than the national median of $125,040 for Chemical Engineers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $170,996, which is 36.8% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 3.3% higher than the New Mexico median of $158,190.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Albuquerque, NM is 95.546, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $163,380 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Chemical Engineers at $170,996 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Chemical Engineers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Chemical Engineers accounts for 0.02% of wage-and-salary employment in Albuquerque, NM (80 of 404,700). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (21,070 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.46 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.