Midwife Salary Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Midwives and Practitioners of Natural Healing. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 3232.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: midwife, acupuncturist, homeopath and reflexologist.

The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:

• Low pay: The bottom 10 percent of workers earn this.
• High pay: The top 10 percent of workers earn this.
• Average pay: The average wage in this sector after removing the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent of workers. Average pay is then calculated on the remaining 80 percent of workers' wages.

According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Winnipeg, Manitoba at $38.56 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Edmonton, Alberta at $9.85 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for midwives and practitioners of natural healing is health care and social assistance. The average weekly earnings for the health care and social assistance sector as a whole were $800.90 in February 2011, an increase of 3.3% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $775.57. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $22.25.

Average Hourly Wages for
Midwives and Practitioners of Natural Healing in Canada

* 5^th percentile, median, 95^th percentile bands used.