New Mexico State Pay Schedules
Grade-and-step salary schedules for New Mexico state civil-service employees, sourced from the state's own HR publications and shown with their effective dates.
New Mexico publishes its classified civil-service pay as pay bands rather than a stepped grid. The loaded schedule holds 20 bands, labelled C1 through C20, and each one gives an annual minimum and maximum with no fixed step values in between. It takes effect July 4, 2026.
Because a band is a span rather than a ladder, knowing the band tells you the floor and the ceiling for a job, not what a particular position pays inside it. Why state job postings show a salary range covers why that is the shape you usually meet first.
Reading a pay band
Each row of the schedule is one band: an annual minimum, a published midpoint, and an annual maximum. The state also publishes the same figures as hourly rates; the tables here use the annual values, and the two should never be read against each other.
A band number is a label rather than a position, and the numbering runs in order from C1 upward. What a civil-service pay grade is explains what that kind of label represents once you have found the right one.
Bands instead of steps
There are no step columns to read across here, so there is no published schedule of annual movement within a band. Where a position sits between the minimum and the maximum is set by the state’s own rules and the hiring agency rather than by the table.
That makes this closer to a broadband pay system than to the grade-and-step grids other states publish, which is worth keeping in mind before comparing a New Mexico band against another state’s grade.
Effective dates and sources
The figures here were read from the state’s published XLSX workbook, and the table is shown with its effective date and a link back to the file. Notably, the effective date is carried in the filename rather than inside the workbook, so the file we cite is itself part of the record.
Methodology describes how versions are dated and updated, and data sources lists the workbook behind this table. This is an independent reference site with no connection to the State of New Mexico or any of its agencies.