Work-Friendly People
Without a doubt, our people are our greatest asset. In 2005 more than 900,000 people lived in the Metro region, making it the center of the state's commercial and governmental activities. Metro New Mexico communities offer:
- a talented technical and creative workforce
- specialized programs to train future employees
- a community of high-level researchers
- scientists, engineers, writers and artists, who comprise a large and ever-growing creative class — the largest in the country for cities of our size
- wage levels below the national median that reduce payroll costs
- state subsidized programs for job training that make it less expensive to prepare your labor force.
We Are The World
Our diverse population is ready to work!
- Our complementary mix of Hispanics, Anglos, Native Americans, African Americans, and Asians reflects the increasingly diverse population of the U.S.
- Anglo 43.1% (2005)
- Hispanic 41.1% (2005)
- American Indian 11.2% (2005)
- We're a harbinger of the future as a minority-majority state.
- New Mexico's population presents a microcosm of world markets.
- Bilingual skills prepare the population to work in the global economy.
- 36.5% of the population over 5 years old spoke a language other than English in 2000.
- 28.7% spoke Spanish in 2000.
- A large, skilled labor pool makes recruiting easy.
- Our well-educated population means a skilled workforce for you:
- 84.1% had a high school degree or higher in 2006.
- 28.25% had a bachelor's degree or higher in 2006.
- The State of New Mexico also has one of the highest percentages of PhD's per capita, partly due to the presence of two national laboratories.
