How much do Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining make in Albuquerque, NM?

Percentile spread

For Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining, the published 10th percentile is $47,170 and the 90th percentile is $95,440. The difference is $48,270, which is 74.7% 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 $50,450 to the 75th at $64,650, covers $14,200.

The mean annual wage is $63,480, which sits below the median of $64,650. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Albuquerque, NM median is 12.6% higher than the national median of $57,430 for Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining. In 2024 national prices the local median is $67,664, which is 17.8% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 15.3% lower than the New Mexico median of $76,350.

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 $64,650 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining at $67,664 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

One other metropolitan area within 200 miles publishes a annual median for Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining. Albuquerque, NM ranks 2nd of 2 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• Farmington, NM is 142 miles away, with a median of $85,880 and employment of 50. That median is 32.8% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $97,917, against $67,664 here.

Employment share

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Albuquerque, NM (40 of 404,700). Nationally the occupation is 0.02% of employment (34,480 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.45 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.