Project Manager Salary in New Mexico (2026)

Worth knowing: LANL plutonium pit production ramp is one of the country's most distinctive concentrated US single-state nuclear weapons program management operations and a feature most national PM compensation surveys understate for NM. LANL post-2024 plutonium pit production ramp (the substantial LANL Plutonium Facility 4 PF-4 + the substantial LANL post-2024 plutonium pit production target ~30 pits/yr by 2030 supporting W87-1 warhead modernization + the substantial post-2024 LANL Triad National Security M&O contractor pit production qualification + the substantial post-2014 Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board oversight + the substantial LANL plutonium pit production workforce expansion + the substantial DOE NNSA Stockpile Stewardship Program + the substantial post-2024 LANL plutonium pit production budget ~$5B+ annually + the substantial LANL-Savannah River Site SRS S Carolina plutonium pit production division of labor) operates one of the country's substantial US DOE nuclear program management operations. Senior LANL cleared plutonium pit production program managers clear $155-265K+ TC with DOE Q clearance premium. Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque substantial cleared DOE NNSA program management supporting Z Machine pulsed-power physics + MESA Microsystems Engineering Sciences and Applications semiconductor + the substantial Sandia California Livermore satellite + the substantial Sandia post-NTESS Honeywell program management + the substantial Sandia ~11K Albuquerque cleared workforce. Senior Sandia cleared program managers clear $148-245K+ TC. Kirtland AFB Albuquerque substantial cleared AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate + Directed Energy Directorate program management supporting space + laser + microwave weapons research + the substantial Kirtland 58th Special Operations Wing CV-22 Osprey program management. Intel Rio Rancho Fab 11X substantial semiconductor manufacturing PM supporting the substantial post-2021 Intel $3.5B+ Rio Rancho expansion + the substantial Intel Foundry Services post-2022 CHIPS Act manufacturing. White Sands Missile Range substantial cleared Army Test and Evaluation Command PM + the substantial WSMR ~12K cleared workforce + Holloman AFB 49th Wing F-16 + MQ-9 RPA PM + Cannon AFB 27th SOW AFSOC AC-130 PM. UNM Health Sciences Center substantial hospital construction PM. The substantial NM Permian Basin oil & gas PM (NM #2 US oil producer + ConocoPhillips + EOG + Devon + Mewbourne Oil NM Permian operations + the substantial NM Permian drilling + completion + midstream + processing PM). NM progressive 1.7-5.9% top by 2026 + NM is NOT a RTW state + NM property tax ~0.74% + no state estate tax + NM gross receipts tax ~5.125% state + local anchor the NM PM proposition.