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Las Cruces, NM

Las Cruces, NM spreads H-1B hiring across 5+ sectors (17 employers, $120,276 median wage) rather than one dominant NAICS group.

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17
Employers
$120,276
Median H-1B wage
260
H-1B filings

Las Cruces, NM: 17 tracked employers at a $120,276 median H-1B wage across 260 LCAs; Healthcare & Social Assistance leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Las Cruces, NM (NM), PlainEmployers rolls up 17 employers at a $120,276 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 17 employers
  • $120,276 median H-1B
  • 260 H-1B LCAs

Where Las Cruces, NM's median H-1B wage sits nationally

Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row

$120,276 Top 53% higher than 47% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows

$0–$20,000: 1 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $20,000–$40,000: 401 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $40,000–$60,000: 7,591 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Below this entry. $60,000–$80,000: 24,066 credible H-1B wage rows (9%). Below this entry. $80,000–$100,000: 43,829 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Below this entry. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Below this entry. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). This entry sits in this band. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). Above this entry. $160,000–$180,000: 22,983 credible H-1B wage rows (8%). Above this entry. $180,000–$200,000: 15,711 credible H-1B wage rows (6%). Above this entry. $200,000–$220,000: 10,825 credible H-1B wage rows (4%). Above this entry. $220,000–$240,000: 6,806 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Above this entry. $240,000–$260,000: 4,579 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. $260,000–$280,000: 2,975 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $280,000–$300,000: 1,671 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $300,000–$320,000: 5,015 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. Las Cruces, NM $0 $320,000 every credible H-1B wage row, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more credible H-1B wage rows. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026

Metro Labor Presence

Las Cruces, NM (17 employers) sits beside Albuquerque, NM, Santa Fe, NM, Carlsbad, NM in NM's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Las Cruces, NM ranks #653 of 6906 by employer count (about the 90th percentile).

Albuquerque, NM 61 Santa Fe, NM 16 Carlsbad, NM 6 Rio Rancho, NM 5 Clovis, NM 4 Hobbs, NM 4

What the data says about Las Cruces, NM

Corpus placement: Las Cruces, NM ranks #653 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 90th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Healthcare & Social Assistance leads with 3 of 17 tracked employers (~18%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Administrative & Waste Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLC, New Mexico State University, and Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC (233 filings combined, ~90% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Las Cruces, NM: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Las Cruces, NM reads as a diversified labor market: the lead sector (Healthcare & Social Assistance) is only ~18% of tracked employers across 5 named industries, so no single NAICS group dominates the local picture.

Same-state context for Las Cruces, NM: Albuquerque, NM (61 employers); Santa Fe, NM (16 employers); Carlsbad, NM (6 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

Employer mix in Las Cruces, NM

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

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What this shows Las Cruces, NM has no runaway sector: Healthcare & Social Assistance leads at only ~18% across 5 named industries.

Source DOL H-1B, OSHA & WARN filings mapped to NAICS sector

Top employers in Las Cruces, NM

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLCManufacturing167$122,075
2New Mexico State UniversityEducational Services40$74,992
3Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLCAdministrative & Waste Services26$110,456
4CloudWave Inc.Professional & Technical Services8$135,500
5Ssrr Rx LLC3$124,800
6Las Cruces Public SchoolsEducational Services2$59,085
7Pathology Consultants of New Mexico2$325,000
8Las Cruces Physician Practices, LLCHealthcare & Social Assistance2$239,200
9Las Cruces HB Medical Services LLC2$308,880
10Pathware Inc.1$120,536
11Three Crosses Regional Hospital, LLCHealthcare & Social Assistance1-
12La Clinica de Familia, Inc.1$81,000
13Las Cruces Physician Services, LLC1-
14Hillrise Pharmacy LLC1$120,000
15City of Las Cruces1$62,899
16Imaging Associates of New Mexico, LLC1$450,000

PlainEmployers renders Las Cruces, NM from DOL H-1B disclosure filings and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.