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For a second time this year, UNM Hospital raises workers’ pay
The University of New Mexico Hospital, a level-1 trauma center that serves the whole state, gets about 10% of its budget from Bernalillo County property taxes. Voters will decide next week if the hospital mill levy should be renewed. UNMH is the only hospital in the state with a mill levy tied to hospital operations and maintenance.
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Thousands of University of New Mexico Hospital workers are getting a bump in pay this month as are resident physicians, who are represented by a union that negotiated with the university.
A union representing clinical staff at UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center is still negotiating a contract with hospital officials.
Chris Ramirez, the spokesman for UNM Health and Health Sciences, told the Journal Thursday that more than 7,600 hospital workers will see a 3% pay bump this month — the second time this year the hospital has increased workers’ pay.
Some 400 clinical staff at SRMC in Rio Rancho won’t get that pay bump. Those staffers are represented by a union that is in ongoing negotiation with the hospital over the union’s inclusion of PRNs, or “pro-re nata” nurses.
UNM resident physicians this week approved a 5% increase for the 2025 fiscal year.
It marks the second time in 2024 that the Committee of Interns and Residents, the union representing UNM’s roughly 750 resident physicians, negotiated a 5% increase. The resident physicians also received a raise in January.
Rachel Nass, the spokeswoman for the union, said resident physicians hadn’t received a raise in 18 months prior to this year.
