Nonmetro area, New Mexico
Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area
84,350 people work in this area, at mean pay of $71,570 a year (BLS, May 2025), in every industry. What follows is how much of their working time the best AI models could finish, when, and in which jobs and tasks. Estimates.
of the paid hours. Estimate.
a year: 32 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 37%
- 18%
- 45%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 16% is within reach in tasks not yet seen there.
Across the US: 22% within reach now and 37% by the end of 2028, on the long-run pace at four in five.
Share of the paid hours within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this area's paid hours were within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 2%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 19%. Today's estimate: 21%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
Where the hours are
Jobs by hours within reach now. The 40 largest jobs hold 56% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 3,250 | 43% | 2.9 million | $48K |
| Office Clerks, General | 1,100 | 54% | 1.2 million | $38K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 740 | 78% | 1.2 million | $47K |
| Cashiers | 2,310 | 19% | 888,888 | $30K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 640 | 64% | 857,293 | $37K |
| Registered Nurses | 1,350 | 28% | 780,626 | $97K |
| Retail Salespersons | 1,820 | 19% | 734,407 | $32K |
| Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | 1,000 | 32% | 667,681 | $76K |
| Stockers and Order Fillers | 1,520 | 19% | 600,704 | $36K |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | 510 | 54% | 569,650 | $29K |
| General and Operations Managers | 1,190 | 23% | 564,349 | $95K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 710 | 35% | 510,975 | $60K |
People: BLS counts for this area, May 2025. Pay here: the median paid for the job in this area, else its mean, else the national median. 280 smaller jobs (31,880 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 87% of the area's people; the rest are in BLS "all other" groups with no task list, or in counts BLS does not publish.
The tasks with the most hours within reach by the end of 2028
Across the whole area, on the chosen pace and reliability.
- Coordinate conferences, meetings, or special events, such as luncheons or graduation ceremonies.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive711,796 hours53% of the task within reach
- Use computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive649,148 hours100% of the task within reach
- Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records, correspondence, or other material.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive523,187 hours70% of the task within reach
- Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive403,906 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs.Information Security Analysts393,486 hours98% of the task within reach
- Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.Information Security Analysts382,148 hours95% of the task within reach
- Operate electronic mail systems and coordinate the flow of information, internally or with other organizations.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive357,934 hours100% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers339,651 hours100% of the task within reach
- Encrypt data transmissions and erect firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers.Information Security Analysts325,671 hours100% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General275,521 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in New Mexico
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
How it is built: BLS counts the people in each job in this area; each job's tasks and their lengths give its share within reach at a date; the area's share is those shares weighted by people. Value is pay times 1.43 for benefits and payroll costs. Seen in Claude use splits today's share by whether Anthropic saw people bring each task to Claude in 2025; other AI tools are not counted. How it works