Midwife
Attends pregnancy, birth and postpartum care with a continuity relationship. Call schedules are unlike any desk job.
- Pay band (est.)
- $95k–$135k
- Time to competence
- 6 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- clinic
- Leverage
- low
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 60/100
- Hours burden
- 85/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play47th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge47th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage14th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand73th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay79th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body19th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy16th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit1th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility31th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill44th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load93th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance26th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Unpredictable on-call; high litigation exposure in obstetrics.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 85/100 and people intensity 95/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS-style wage patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.