Hiring/New Mexico/Psychiatric Technicians

Psychiatric Technicians hiring difficulty in Albuquerque, NM

Psychiatric Technicians in Albuquerque, NM is not scored. OEWS counts 300 jobs in this occupation here, which is under the 500-worker floor, so the page says: Too few workers locally to score reliably. BLS projects 17.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 161.5 thousand employment base in 2025, or 10.5 percent, and employment growth of 22.3 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. This metro has far fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.74 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.748 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. New Mexico has 96 designated Mental Health shortage-area IDs, 4.5 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in mental health. The metro median is $39,020 a year, under the U.S. median of $45,130 and within 3 percent of the New Mexico median of $39,020 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). 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). OEWS counts 300 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.