Hiring/New Mexico/Dental Hygienists

Dental Hygienists hiring difficulty in Albuquerque, NM

The public market difficulty score for Dental Hygienists in Albuquerque, NM is 5.1 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. BLS projects 15.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 225.3 thousand employment base in 2025, or 6.7 percent, and employment growth of 8.0 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. This metro has a thicker supply of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 1.39 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.993 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. New Mexico has 103 designated Dental Health shortage-area IDs, 4.9 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in dental health. In New Mexico, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.5%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 33.6 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median of $95,900 a year is within 3 percent of both the New Mexico median of $95,940 and the U.S. median of $98,100 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 810 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Albuquerque. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Albuquerque at rank 56 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.