Current Economic Indicators: Average Annual Covered Wage and Salary Employment

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Average Annual Covered Wage and Salary Employment#
New Mexico Counties                    
                       
Area 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011r
New Mexico1 729,422 737,418 745,935 760,449 778,233 807,063 821,484 825,736 791,509 781,694 781,226
Bernalillo County 309,166 308,128 309,386 314,071 319,561 329,944 333,466 332,615 318,223 311,725 310,346
Catron County 609 581 597 576 586 608 632 650 617 614 598
Chaves County 20,962 20,989 21,087 20,671 21,098 22,136 22,314 22,246 21,964 21,348 21,307
Cibola County 6,819 7,422 8,094 8,695 8,608 8,338 8,433 8,822 7,865 7,776 7,724
Colfax County 5,580 5,607 5,704 5,584 5,438 5,280 5,323 5,351 5,135 5,044 5,065
Curry County 14,015 14,601 15,169 15,607 16,034 16,449 16,702 16,830 16,845 16,764 16,748
De Baca County 543 514 515 550 505 500 482 504 509 497 480
Dona Ana County 57,675 59,841 61,405 62,552 65,191 66,860 67,818 69,105 67,759 69,187 69,109
Eddy County 19,219 19,531 19,677 19,743 20,234 21,051 22,030 23,207 23,280 23,547 24,767
Grant County 10,628 9,903 9,141 9,283 9,712 10,235 10,295 10,283 8,961 8,879 9,394
Guadalupe County 1,266 1,262 1,236 1,276 1,296 1,458 1,383 1,314 1,337 1,276 1,280
Harding County 157 169 176 175 161 158 176 191 183 174 175
Hidalgo County 1,715 1,768 1,726 1,659 1,693 1,606 1,609 1,700 1,656 1,660 1,673
Lea County 23,079 22,236 22,555 23,851 25,378 26,680 28,058 29,566 26,769 26,675 28,548
Lincoln County 6,091 6,465 6,766 7,002 6,816 6,703 7,064 7,162 6,800 6,711 6,514
Los Alamos County1 8,637 8,978 9,159 9,160 8,916 14,589 18,016 16,989 16,753 17,073 16,686
Luna County 7,172 7,502 7,988 7,901 8,332 8,141 8,147 8,030 7,543 7,584 7,669
McKinley County 19,895 20,403 21,138 21,479 21,531 21,530 22,130 21,837 21,620 21,363 20,944
Mora County 823 874 888 906 870 868 870 874 814 747 711
Otero County 16,402 16,717 17,167 18,077 18,208 17,816 17,854 17,611 17,135 17,073 16,955
Quay County 2,945 2,909 2,806 2,852 2,833 2,890 2,766 2,878 2,813 2,740 2,619
Rio Arriba County 10,477 10,994 11,501 12,058 12,153 12,233 11,241 11,531 10,998 10,547 9,482
Roosevelt County 5,690 6,314 6,633 6,718 6,688 6,723 6,876 6,975 6,309 6,447 6,265
Sandoval County 25,978 25,132 24,677 25,886 27,114 29,243 29,350 29,843 29,221 29,114 29,239
San Juan County 44,482 45,038 44,895 46,720 48,278 50,018 51,044 52,253 49,304 47,638 48,272
San Miguel County 8,129 8,733 8,929 8,773 8,569 8,690 8,628 8,561 8,324 8,087 7,999
Santa Fe County 57,987 58,731 60,201 61,038 62,857 63,898 65,908 65,710 61,775 60,538 60,477
Sierra County 2,820 2,816 2,746 2,803 2,891 2,962 3,031 3,287 3,247 3,285 3,183
Socorro County 4,560 4,869 4,998 5,134 5,420 5,435 5,512 5,635 5,527 5,403 5,355
Taos County 9,995 10,653 10,697 10,677 10,885 11,218 11,374 11,258 10,817 10,449 10,295
Torrance County 3,284 3,373 3,442 3,485 3,510 3,541 3,431 3,296 3,071 3,131 3,075
Union County 1,318 1,358 1,368 1,335 1,336 1,356 1,338 1,427 1,343 1,264 1,284
Valencia County 11,791 12,632 13,694 13,997 14,540 15,287 15,595 15,717 15,020 14,571 14,445
Unknown County2 9,517 10,378 9,773 10,154 10,995 12,618 12,588 12,480 11,971 12,767 12,545
Note:  Data for 2001 through 2011 have been revised in accordance with U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, databases.
#   Data are by location of the employer's establishment and represent counts of workers covered by 
     New Mexico unemployment insurance (UI) law and related statutes.  For a complete definition of 
     covered employment see the attached definition sheet.
p   Preliminary.
r    Revised.
1   Data from 2001 through 2005 do not include employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).  
     Workers at LANL were employees of the State of California and were excluded from New Mexico
     and Los Alamos County covered employment counts because they were covered under California 
     unemployment insurance laws.  However, in June 2006 Los Alamos National Security, LLC, (a group
     of private and public organizations) replaced the University of California as the management and
     operating contractor at LANL.  Because of this change in lab management, LANL was assigned 
     to the professional & technical services sector and lab employment was recorded in this database for
     the first time.  Thus, from June 2006 forward total covered employment counts, along with employment 
    counts in the professional & technical services and total private sectors, are not consistent
     with data for prior periods.  
2   Includes workers for which no primary place of employment was specified or where the county of
     employment was unknown.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
Table prepared by:  Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico, December 2012.