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Nurse Midwives pay in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA and Urban Honolulu, HI
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Nurse Midwives is $218,760 per year in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA. It is $184,620 per year in Urban Honolulu, HI. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA is 18.5% above Urban Honolulu, HI on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1161 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 40 wage and salary jobs in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA and Not published in Urban Honolulu, HI. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings