Reports & Special Analysis

This report is published annually and provides information and analysis on what New Mexico’s workforce looks like and how it’s growing. It also highlights employment in the state’s industries alongside occupational employment and wages. This, coupled with data on skills and education, serves to evaluate not only the existing workforce and job market, but also the future supply and demand of jobs and workers. Click the image to view the New Mexico 2024 State of the Workforce. 

This report identifies issues related to providing unemployment insurance or wage replacement for workers currently ineligible to receive unemployment benefits. Funded by the New Mexico Legislature in 2023, the report was prepared by the University of New Mexico with data analysis from Economic Research and Analysis.

This report used a combination of survey, interview, and focus group methodologies to identify concerns, best practices and areas of opportunity in the Clean Energy Industry. Funded by the New Mexico Legislature in 2019 and prepared by ER&A and UNM.

The New Mexico Center for Economic Opportunity, the 501(c)3 foundation of the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, held the first of nine sector convenings at the end of 2022 focused on the economic growth sectors identified in New Mexico's twenty-year economic development plan, Empower and Collaborate, New Mexico's Economic Path Forward. The targeted sector was green and renewable energy, attended by industry, research institutions, and government representatives.

The passage of the New Mexico Health Care Work Force Data Collection established the New Mexico Healthcare Workforce Committee that oversees the analysis of the license renewal survey data and development recommendations to the Legislature to improve the training, recruitment and retention of health professionals in the state of New Mexico. Prepared by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences.