Homeland security professionals in New Mexico work to keep residents of the state and the country from harm’s way. Salary data for 2012 for the state has been provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average wage for key homeland security occupations is listed below, followed by the average salary of those who earned in the top 10th percentile of their profession.
Homeland Security Jobs
Mean Salary
Top 10th Percentile
Explosives Workers
$54680
$74510
Information Security Analysts
$79240
$113610
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$49410
$89590
Transportation Security Screeners
$35470
$40140
For some of these professions, salaries average higher for the state as a whole than in the major cities of New Mexico. For example, protective service worker supervisors in Santa Fe who earned in the top of their field averaged $65,470 a year in 2012.
Information security analysts in Albuquerque earned an average of $76,620. The average salary of transportation security screeners in the city was about the same as that for the state as a whole: $35,700.
The information shown in these tables was furnished by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and represents salary data for many of the different homeland security jobs one could find in New Mexico’s major cities.
New Mexico Information Security Analyst Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
Albuquerque NM
230
36.84
76620
35.75
44.09
53.07
74370
91720
110390
New Mexico Protective Service Workers Supervisor Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
Albuquerque NM
380
19.72
41020
18.77
24.29
32.89
39050
50530
68410
Farmington NM
40
17.73
36870
16.73
22.60
27.98
34790
47020
58190
Las Cruces NM
50
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Estimate Not Released
Santa Fe NM
30
22.34
46480
21.77
26.50
31.48
45280
55130
65470
North and West Central New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
40
20.64
42940
19.53
29.11
34.04
40620
60550
70800
Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
70
20.99
43650
20.51
26.45
29.44
42670
55030
61230
New Mexico Transportation Security Screener Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
Albuquerque NM
190
17.17
35700
16.72
18.46
19.39
34770
38400
40330
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