Turnover Cost: Medical Assistants, New Mexico (2025)

Verified cost of employee turnover for the selected Medical Assistants population in New Mexico, United States, drawn from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025-may).

Estimated cost of turnover

Medical Assistants · New Mexico, United States

$20,700 – $83,000estimated range, 2025-may

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $41,490 for Medical Assistants in New Mexico, United States (2025-may), multiplied by the 0.5×–2× cost of replacing an employee reported by SHRM and Gallup. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the wage, not the cost — the range is a planning estimate, and a real figure depends on time-to-fill, ramp-up, and lost productivity.

How Medical Assistants compares in New Mexico, United States

Annual mean wage — the input to the estimate above, compared directly rather than as a derived range. See all 33 industries.

  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
  • Customer Service Representatives
  • Medical Assistants
  • Nursing Assistants
  • Home Health and Personal Care Aides

What this means

New Mexico reports an annual mean wage of $41,490 for Medical Assistants according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Using the SHRM cost estimate (one-half to two times salary) applied to this figure produces a replacement cost between $20,700 and $83,000. This is a research-based estimate; the cost of turnover in your workplace will depend on your hiring timeline, how you structure onboarding, and the workload during the vacancy.

Estimated cost of turnover: Medical Assistants vs regional average

Estimated cost of turnover in New Mexico, United States, 2025-may. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
MeasureMedical AssistantsRegional average
Estimated cost of turnover$41,490$77,612

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