Nurse Midwives Salary

Yes — at the median salary of $125K, rent takes 16.8% of take-home pay. A 2-bedroom at the HUD Fair Market Rent runs $1,272/month. That stays under the 30% guideline most financial planners use.

The 10th-percentile wage — what new nurse midwives typically earn — is $104K/year. Take-home on that works out to about $6,262/month. At HUD’s $1,272/month FMR, rent would take 20% of that take-home — manageable on an entry-level income.

Pay here is roughly in line with the national average — $125K locally vs. $134K nationally, a 7% difference.

Michigan pays $125K median vs. the U.S. average of $134K — that’s -7%. After adjusting for local cost of living (RPP 93.89), the purchasing-power equivalent is $133K — below the national median.

The median is $125,140 a year, that works out to about $60 an hour. But the range is wide: entry-level workers start around $104,370, and experienced nurse midwives can clear $142,430. These are BLS numbers, based on employer-reported data, not self-reported surveys.

On that salary, you'd take home roughly $7,581/month after taxes. A 2-bedroom here rents for about $1,272/month, which eats 16.8% of your paycheck. That's under the 30% guideline most financial planners use, so the numbers work.

Michigan has a Regional Price Parity of 93.89 (100 is the national average). That's below average, your money stretches further here than the raw salary number suggests. After cost-of-living adjustment, the median nurse midwives salary is worth about $133,284 in national-average purchasing power.

The table above ranks every state by median pay for this role. Keep in mind that the highest-paying states tend to have the highest costs of living, so the top salary doesn't always mean the most money in your pocket.