Midwives Career, Salary and Skills
Midwives have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $65,790 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 35,010. Wage data is published for 177 locations.
Occupation description
Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.
O*NET code
29-9099.01
Job zone
5
Typical education
Post-Secondary Certificate
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$65,790
Hourly median
$31.63
Employment
35,010
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$38,660
10th
$47,750
25th
$65,790
Median
$97,000
75th
$129,830
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Social Perceptiveness | 4.12 | 4.88 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Monitoring | 4.00 | 4.62 |
| Service Orientation | 3.75 | 3.75 |
| Active Listening | 3.75 | 4.38 |
| Speaking | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.62 | 4.25 |
| Coordination | 3.62 | 3.75 |
| Active Learning | 3.38 | 3.62 |
Typical tasks
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
- Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
- Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
- Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
- Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
- Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
- Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
- Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
Technology
- AS/400 Database
- Email software
- Epic Systems
- Extensible markup language XML
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Private Practice
- Web browser software
Midwives salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Midwives Salary in CAMedian $75,800 · Employment 4,180
- Midwives Salary in LAMedian $63,240 · Employment 3,900
- Midwives Salary in PAMedian $45,360 · Employment 2,490
- Midwives Salary in MDMedian $75,000 · Employment 2,110
- Midwives Salary in New Orleans, LAMedian $63,240 · Employment 1,910
- Midwives Salary in GAMedian $63,230 · Employment 1,770
- Midwives Salary in TNMedian $63,400 · Employment 1,650
- Midwives Salary in TXMedian $62,420 · Employment 1,460
- Midwives Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $78,940 · Employment 1,430
- Midwives Salary in New York, NYMedian $101,870 · Employment 1,340
- Midwives Salary in MIMedian $77,130 · Employment 1,160
- Midwives Salary in NYMedian $102,990 · Employment 1,110
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.