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Nurse Midwives

Diagnose and coordinate all aspects of the birthing process, either independently or as part of a healthcare team. May provide well-woman gynecological care. Must have specialized, graduate nursing education.

68 AI exposure
43 Human advantage
60 Market demand
57 AI leverage

Is Nurse Midwives a safe career from AI?

Nurse Midwives scores 68 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 43. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 60 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 11.5% over ten years.

What Nurse Midwives pay

The median wage is $128,790 a year. The lower quarter earns under $104,260 and the upper quarter over $146,520. About 8,280 people do this work in the United States.

Where Nurse Midwives can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Nurse Practitioners 94% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physician Assistants 94% of the skills carry over $133k median
Dentists, General 86% of the skills carry over $173k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 87% of the skills carry over $106k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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