{"id":399213,"date":"2026-01-10T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399213\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:28:06","slug":"sandia-national-labs-reports-record-economic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399213\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandia National Labs reports record economic impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2013 Sandia National Labs significantly contributed to New Mexico\u2019s economy last year with a record $5.2 billion impact.<\/p>\n<p>Laura McGill, appointed as lab director last May, highlighted the number during a press conference on Friday. She emphasized Sandia\u2019s role in supporting wages, suppliers, construction projects and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you can see Sandia plays a meaningful role in the state\u2019s overall economic health,\u201d said McGill.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the impact came from labor and payments to contractors and subcontractors.<\/p>\n<p>McGill said they paid $144 million in gross receipt taxes to the state, an increase of $11.3 million from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Sandia employs about 16,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in Albuquerque and New Mexico. McGill highlighted their efforts to attract highly skilled professionals with competitive compensation packages.<\/p>\n<p>She also addressed workforce reductions last year, explaining they were necessary for long-term sustainability and largely achieved through voluntary measures and normal attrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2013 Sandia National Labs significantly contributed to New Mexico\u2019s economy last year with a record $5.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-399213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}