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Hospice aide salary

Open hospice aide jobs post a median of $23 an hour, with the middle half paying $19.75–$26.50: about $47,800 a year full time. Measured from 26 jobs at 11 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$23
Median posted /hr
$20–$27
Middle half /hr
$47,800
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$17.21
BLS median /hr
May 2025

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What hospice aides are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 26 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $14, the highest $36.

Posted on open jobs

$19.75–$26.50/hr

Middle half of 14 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $23. 35% of the 74 open hospice aide jobs state an hourly rate.

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Hospice aide pay by employer

What each employer posts for hospice aides, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
GBMC HealthCare$20.50$17.24–$23.917
Compassus$21.75$16.06–$28.394
Beth Israel Lahey Health$24.75$21–$28.263
By the Bay Health$28.75$26.30–$312
Amedisys$23.25$20–$262
Suncrest Health Services$21.50$20–$232
UnitedHealth Group$19$14–$23.852
Sutter Health$32$28.46–$35.491
Luminis Health$28$20–$361
Cornerstone Healthcare$27$26–$281
Riverside Health$19.25$16.80–$21.831

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Best-paid open hospice aide jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Hospice aide jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (31-1120)$13.00 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$15.35 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$17.21 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$18.98 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)$21.65 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)4,305,810 (source: BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($23) is $5.79 above the BLS median ($17.21 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Hospice aide salary: common questions

How much does a hospice aide make an hour?

Open hospice aide jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $23, with the middle half between $19.75–$26.50 (26 jobs from 11 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $17.21/hr ($35,800 a year) for home health and personal care aides in May 2025.

How much does a hospice aide make a year?

At the posted median of $23 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $47,800, and the middle half to $41,100 to $55,100. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 26 of 74 open hospice aide jobs (35%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Home Health and Personal Care Aides (SOC 31-1120), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Home Health and Personal Care Aides by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Home Health and Personal Care Aides (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Hospice aide salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/hospice-aide

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