Doula
Impact: Direct Personal
Provide continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to clients before, during, and after childbirth, offering guidance and resource referrals on maternal self-care, lactation, and parenting.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Extensive
- Team vs solo
- Balanced
- Client facing
- Always
- Impact visibility
- High
- Travel
- Moderate
- Schedule flexibility
- Flexible
- Remote work
- On-site Only
- Typical work hours
- Variable
- Stress level
- High
At a glance
- Median salary
- $45,000
- Entry-level
- $28,000
- Senior
- $75,000
- Growth by 2033
- Above Average
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- High
- Salary growth potential
- Medium
- Typical student debt
- $5,000 - $15,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- Childbirth Support Techniques
- Lactation Support
- Resource Navigation
Soft skills
- Empathy
- Communication
- Patience
Technical complexity: Low
How to get there
- Minimum education
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 5
- Years to senior
- 10
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Advanced certifications, specialization (e.g., postpartum, bereavement), educator, mentor, business owner.
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- Very Low
- AI disruption risk
- Very Low
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 4/10
- Meaning
- 4/10
- Work-life balance
- 3.5/10
- Prestige
- 5.5/10
- Social perception
- High