Turnover Cost: Waiters and Waitresses, New Mexico (2025)

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

Estimated cost of turnover

Waiters and Waitresses · New Mexico, United States

$21,600 – $86,400estimated range, 2025-may

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $43,210 for Waiters and Waitresses 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 Waiters and Waitresses 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.

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What this means

Servers in New Mexico earn an annual mean wage of $43,210, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Replacing one of these workers costs between $21,600 and $86,400 when applying SHRM's 50% to 200% multiple to that wage. An employer's real number depends on staffing velocity, onboarding intensity, and how quickly service reaches full capacity.

Estimated cost of turnover: Waiters and Waitresses vs regional average

Estimated cost of turnover in New Mexico, United States, 2025-may. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
MeasureWaiters and WaitressesRegional average
Estimated cost of turnover$43,210$77,612

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