Families / Care

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.