New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology H-1B wage filings

Socorro, NM. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology filed 14 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $66,700, 13.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (3 filings, median $85,000).

Filings
14
Positions covered
14
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
10
Worksite cities
2
Filings since FY2020
78
Median offer change since FY2020
+1%

Offered wage since 2020

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology's median H-1B wage offer rose 1%, from $68,280 in fiscal 2020 to $69,200 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 19 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$68k$70k$58k$59k$62k$65k$69k6202062021102022102023152024192025122026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)12$69,200+6.5%$56,784+18.8%
202519$65,000+4.9%$57,574+7.4%
202415$61,971+4.7%$59,041+4.3%
202310$59,167+2.3%$53,456+3.1%
202210$57,865−17.2%$52,832+5.4%
20216$69,926+2.4%$65,277+3.2%
20206$68,280n/a$54,360+17.2%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Assistant Professor3$85,000+68.6%
Postdoctoral Researcher2$59,869+0.2%
Research Associate2$70,000+20.3%
Full Stack Developer (Water Data)1$68,400+20.4%
Petroleum Geologist1$73,912+23.7%
Postdoctoral Research Associate1$62,000+9.3%
Research Scientist1$54,590+6.0%
Software Engineer I1$64,272+68.0%
University Photographer & Videographer1$55,000+9.3%
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor1$65,000+9.5%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Socorro, NM13$65,000
Monroe, WA1$68,400

By visa type: 14 H-1B. By outcome: 13 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252
Oct to Dec 20251
Jan to Mar 20264
Apr to Jun 20267

Across all employers, filings bunch up in the first half of each year around the annual H-1B lottery, so compare a quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, not with the one before it.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry86%
Level II, qualified14%
Level III, experienced0%
Level IV, fully competent0%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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