# Counties in New Mexico by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 33 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/new-mexico-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Bernalillo County | 347,718 |
| 2 | Doña Ana County | 81,834 |
| 3 | Santa Fe County | 61,880 |
| 4 | San Juan County | 47,793 |
| 5 | Sandoval County | 35,867 |
| 6 | Eddy County | 34,421 |
| 7 | Lea County | 34,047 |
| 8 | Los Alamos County | 22,520 |
| 9 | Chaves County | 21,847 |
| 10 | McKinley County | 19,353 |
| 11 | Curry County | 18,211 |
| 12 | Valencia County | 17,864 |
| 13 | Otero County | 17,539 |
| 14 | Taos County | 10,996 |
| 15 | Rio Arriba County | 9,536 |
| 16 | Grant County | 9,348 |
| 17 | Luna County | 8,099 |
| 18 | San Miguel County | 7,821 |
| 19 | Cibola County | 7,268 |
| 20 | Lincoln County | 6,713 |
| 21 | Roosevelt County | 5,870 |
| 22 | Socorro County | 4,870 |
| 23 | Colfax County | 4,228 |
| 24 | Sierra County | 3,641 |
| 25 | Torrance County | 3,191 |
| 26 | Quay County | 2,545 |
| 27 | Guadalupe County | 1,487 |
| 28 | Hidalgo County | 1,274 |
| 29 | Union County | 1,222 |
| 30 | Catron County | 690 |
| 31 | Mora County | 679 |
| 32 | De Baca County | 451 |
| 33 | Harding County | 168 |