The state’s Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP), one of the most generous in the country, funds classroom and on-the-job training for newly-created jobs in expanding or relocating businesses for up to 6 months. The program reimburses 50-75% of employee wages after all employee training has been completed.
The JTIP program encourages companies to move to, stay in, and/or grow in New Mexico and to hire New Mexican employees.
Businesses eligible for consideration of JTIP funding include:
- Companies that manufacture or produce a product in New Mexico
- Non-retail service companies that export a substantial percentage of services out of state (50% or more of revenues and/or customer base). Software development companies, customer support centers and product testing laboratories are three examples of businesses that have qualified in this category
- Certain green industries
Businesses in certain industries are not eligible. Some examples are agriculture, construction, extractive industries, gambling, health care, and retail.
Jobs eligible for funding through JTIP must be:
- Year-round, full-time (minimum of 32 hours per week)
- Directly related to the creation of the product or delivery of the service. (1 in 5 positions applied for may be outside product/service creation). Typical examples include marketing, sales, and general administration
- Manufacturing examples: production worker, electronic equipment assembler, first line supervisor, industrial engineering technician, R&D scientists, and engineers
- Service examples: customer service representative, environmental engineering technician, web developer, software developer
- Intern positions may be eligible
Trainees must be new hires to the company, have been residents of the state of New Mexico for at least one year at any time prior to employment (trainees that do not meet the one-year residency requirement may be eligible if hired into high-wage jobs), and not have left high school in the three months prior to employment, unless they have graduated or completed a HSE (High School Equivalency).
Since 1972 when the program started, JTIP has supported the creation of more than 1,600 training projects and the creation of nearly 47,000 jobs.