High paying social service jobs in New Mexico

Every social service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in New Mexico. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single social service job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in New Mexico run 7.8% below the national average (2024), so a New Mexico salary is worth about 1.08× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order. To see where a job pays a real premium, use jobs that pay more in New Mexico.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, New Mexico · Employed

1Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$77,880
Master's degree
$46,660 – $103,1101,780
2Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors$74,100
Master's degree
$48,900 – $113,4202,420
3Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists$66,000
Bachelor's degree
$54,640 – $86,240620
4Healthcare Social Workers$65,930
Master's degree
$45,780 – $90,0201,200
5Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers$65,640
Master's degree
$36,700 – $114,170800
6Health Education Specialists$57,990
Bachelor's degree
$39,730 – $94,220660
7Child, Family, and School Social Workers$56,160
Bachelor's degree
$36,920 – $101,6002,990
8Community Health Workers$54,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,210 – $73,110610
9Social and Human Service Assistants$46,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,820 – $63,6503,050

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianNew Mexico	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and AdvisorsMaster's degree	$77,880	$46,660 – $103,110	1,780
2	Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health CounselorsMaster's degree	$74,100	$48,900 – $113,420	2,420
3	Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment SpecialistsBachelor's degree	$66,000	$54,640 – $86,240	620
4	Healthcare Social WorkersMaster's degree	$65,930	$45,780 – $90,020	1,200
5	Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social WorkersMaster's degree	$65,640	$36,700 – $114,170	800
6	Health Education SpecialistsBachelor's degree	$57,990	$39,730 – $94,220	660
7	Child, Family, and School Social WorkersBachelor's degree	$56,160	$36,920 – $101,600	2,990
8	Community Health WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,830	$38,210 – $73,110	610
9	Social and Human Service AssistantsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,340	$32,820 – $63,650	3,050

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in New Mexico. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in New Mexico to rank honestly.

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