Veterinary Technician Salary in New Mexico

At the median, New Mexico trails the nation by 5%: $44,790 against $47,380.

The hourly median tells the same story — $21.53 against $22.78, also a 5% gap.

New Mexico comes closest to the national figures at the 25th percentile, only 4% below.

The gap reopens further down: the 10th percentile is 12% below the national one, a wider gap than the 10% at the 90th percentile.

The widest gap of all sits at the 75th percentile, $47,360 against $57,650, 18% below.

A technician comparing an offer to national percentile figures above the median would see a bigger shortfall than the median gap alone suggests.

Half of New Mexico's technicians earned between $37,370 and $47,360 — a band $9,990 wide.

Nationally the same band runs from $38,910 to $57,650, $18,740 wide.

From the 10th percentile ($31,350) to the 90th ($56,870), New Mexico spans $25,520, against $27,470 nationally.

The median sits much closer to the 75th percentile than to the 25th: $2,570 below the one and $7,420 above the other.

OEWS does not explain why a distribution takes this shape, so this page does not assign it a cause.

This data set carries New Mexico's hourly wage only at the median: $21.53, against $22.78 nationally, a 5% gap that matches the gap in the annual median.

That makes it the one figure to hold an hourly posting against.

For the rest of the range, the annual percentiles are the only guide here, so before comparing a posted hourly rate against them, ask the employer how many hours a week the role is scheduled for.

BLS counted 890 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in New Mexico, 35th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That is a headcount of people already in jobs during the survey period, not a count of open positions, so this estimate says nothing about how easy or hard a role is to find here.

A smaller employment count also means New Mexico's percentiles rest on fewer workers counted than in a larger state, worth keeping in mind when weighing the percentile figures on this page.

New Mexico licenses its veterinary technicians as Registered Veterinary Technicians (RVTs) through the New Mexico Board of Veterinary Medicine, and the requirement reaches the work itself: providing veterinary technician services in the state without a Board-issued license is unlawful.

The route runs through an AVMA-accredited program, the national VTNE, and New Mexico's own examination scored to a minimum of 75, with eight hours of continuing education due every calendar year on a license that renews each December 31.

OEWS does not split credentialed RVTs from anyone else doing similar work, so this page cannot show a pay difference tied to the license.

The full requirements page on this site covers the application, fees and renewal in detail.