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New data reveals the Laboratory’s positive economic impact on New Mexico

March 9, 2023

Did you know that in Fiscal Year 2022, Los Alamos National Laboratory:

  • Spent $915 million in procurements with New Mexico businesses?
  • Paid $1.5 billion in salaries its 14,000+ employees, who are residents of Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Bernalillo, Sandoval and Taos Counties?
  • Paid the State of New Mexico $136 million in Gross Receipts Tax?
  • Hired more than 2000 employees, 61.2% of them from New Mexico

Find out more about the Lab’s economic impact on your community in the 2022 Economic Impact on New Mexico report from the Laboratory.

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Santa Fe-based Mesa Photonics had developed a portable, laser-pulse system that can be used to test for Severe Accurate Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness. Through the NMSBA economic development program, Laboratory researchers helped the company demonstrate the product’s feasibility, securing funding to move the project into the next phase of development.

 

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