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Nurse Midwives Salary in AZ

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Nurse Midwives in AZ have a median annual salary of $140,960, with 80 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $101,160 at the 10th percentile to $258,680 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$140,960

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$67.77

Employment

80

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$101,160
10th
$123,310
25th
$140,960
Median
$159,390
75th
$258,680
90th

Local compared with national

AZ

$140,960

Median annual · 2025

United States

$134,040

Median annual · 2025

The AZ median is 5.2% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $6,920).

Top skills

  1. 1.Active ListeningImportance 4.1
  2. 2.SpeakingImportance 4.1
  3. 3.Critical ThinkingImportance 4.1
  4. 4.Social PerceptivenessImportance 4.1
  5. 5.Reading ComprehensionImportance 4.0
  6. 6.Active LearningImportance 4.0
  7. 7.MonitoringImportance 4.0
  8. 8.WritingImportance 3.9
  9. 9.CoordinationImportance 3.9
  10. 10.Service OrientationImportance 3.9
  11. 11.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.9
  12. 12.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.8

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Master's Degree
Experience
None
Job zone
5

Technology used

  • Acrendo Medical Software Ob/Gyn EMR
  • Allscripts Professional EHR
  • Amkai AmkaiCharts
  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
  • Cerner Millennium
  • ChartWare EMR
  • digiChart OB-GYN
  • e-MDs software
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Epic Systems
  • GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
  • Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSUITE
  • Medscribbler Enterprise
  • MicroFour PracticeStudio.NET EMR
  • Microsoft Excel

Common tasks

  • Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
  • Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
  • Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
  • Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
  • Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.
  • Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
  • Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.
  • Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
  • Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
  • Document findings of physical examinations.

Related careers

Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.

Nurse Midwives salary in other locations

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