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Nurse midwife salary

Open nurse midwife jobs post a median of $72.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $64.50–$84.25: about $150,300 a year full time. Measured from 35 jobs at 23 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$72.25
Median posted /hr
$65–$84
Middle half /hr
$150,300
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$64.44
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Nurse midwife jobs

What nurse midwives are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 35 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $23.33, the highest $114.84.

Posted on open jobs

$64.50–$84.25/hr

Middle half of 26 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $72.25. 16% of the 220 open nurse midwife jobs state an hourly rate. 3 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Nurse midwife pay by employer

What each employer posts for nurse midwives, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Kaiser Permanente$99.50$89.41–$109.814
Atlantic Health$84.50$61.18–$107.694
Legacy Health$83.50$23.93–$93.753
Stanford Medicine Children's Health$104.25$93.75–$114.842
MarinHealth$86.25$80–$92.502
Northwestern Medicine$72.75$63–$82.282
HealthPartners$43.25$23.33–$57.322
South Shore Health$100$90–$1101
Ridgecrest Regional Hospital$89.75$71.80–$107.701
Fairview Health Services$80$801
Southcoast Health System$78.75$78.831
AdventHealth$78.50$78.441
Health Imperatives$77$771
Allina Health$72$721
Endeavor Health$71.75$61.54–$81.731
Brown University Health$69.50$61.30–$77.781
Lompoc Valley Medical Center$67.75$59.51–$76.161
Gifford Health Care$67.50$60–$751
Capital Health$67$55.62–$78.611
Adventist HealthCare$63.50$50.80–$76.201
United Health Services (New York)$51$40.70–$61.051
UnitedHealth Group$49$35–$631
Providence$33.50$26.47–$40.491

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Nurse midwife pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$94.75$87.25–$99.50$98 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Nurse midwife jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

37 open jobs from 30 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $133,500, the middle half $122,800 to $145,900, from $78,900 to $312,000 posted.

Best-paid open nurse midwife jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Nurse midwife jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Nurse Midwives (29-1161)$45.01 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)$56.01 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)$64.44 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)$75.67 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)$90.54 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)7,920 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($72.25) is $7.81 above the BLS median ($64.44 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Nurse Midwives, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Nurse midwife salary: common questions

How much does a nurse midwife make an hour?

Open nurse midwife jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $72.25, with the middle half between $64.50–$84.25 (35 jobs from 23 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $64.44/hr ($134,040 a year) for nurse midwives in May 2025.

How much does a nurse midwife make a year?

At the posted median of $72.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $150,300, and the middle half to $134,200 to $175,200. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 37 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $133,500.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 35 of 220 open nurse midwife jobs (16%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Nurse Midwives (SOC 29-1161), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Nurse Midwives by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Nurse Midwives (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Nurse midwife salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/nurse-midwife

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