New Mexico Homeland Security Salaries

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
Explosives Workers
$54680
Information Security Analysts
$79240
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$49410
Transportation Security Screeners
$35470

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
Annual mean wage
Albuquerque NM
230
76620

New Mexico Protective Service Workers Supervisor Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Albuquerque NM
380
41020
Farmington NM
40
36870
Las Cruces NM
50
Estimate Not Released
Santa Fe NM
30
46480
North and West Central New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
40
42940
Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
70
43650

New Mexico Transportation Security Screener Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Albuquerque NM
190
35700

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