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Hospice nurse salary

Open hospice nurse jobs post a median of $46.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $42–$56.50: about $96,700 a year full time. Measured from 187 jobs at 67 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$46.50
Median posted /hr
$42–$57
Middle half /hr
$96,700
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$46.90
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Hospice nurse jobs · A specialty of registered nurse pay

What hospice nurses 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 187 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $19, the highest $111.05.

Posted on open jobs

$42–$56.50/hr

Middle half of 122 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $46.50. 22% of the 847 open hospice nurse jobs state an hourly rate. 35 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Hospice nurse pay by employer

What each employer posts for hospice nurses, 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
UnitedHealth Group$46$28.27–$62.0318
Compassus$56$28.93–$80.0712
Sanford Health$40$29–$63.8511
GBMC HealthCare$40.75$32.18–$60.6010
Amedisys$40.50$35–$5010
Trinity Health$44$38–$59.058
Advocate Health$44.50$35.50–$57.307
Riverside Health$43.25$33–$707
Suncrest Health Services$55$19–$656
CommonSpirit Health$65$34–$92.225
Sarah Bush Lincoln$47.50$35.43–$60.645
Silverado$56.50$39–$604
Envision Hospice$56$52–$634
Tri-Cities Chaplaincy$52.50$42.67–$754
MultiCare Health System$61$41.94–$90.833
Northwestern Medicine$51.50$34.50–$55.203
HealthPartners$51.25$38.30–$67.073
AdventHealth$42.25$29.50–$52.763
UPMC$40.75$36.50–$45.043
Avera Health$34.50$27.75–$46.253
Northwell Health$76$64.73–$1002
Kaiser Permanente$75.50$51.53–$101.262
Sharp HealthCare$68.50$64.21–$72.972
WhidbeyHealth$58.50$41.80–$75.242
Allina Health$51.25$42.92–$59.382
Providence$50.75$39.67–$61.582
BJC HealthCare$45.25$34.50–$56.102
Lighthouse Hospice Care$45$43–$472
OSF HealthCare$45$36.59–$53.172
Carilion Clinic$42$33.52–$50.282
Transitions Group$41.50$36–$452
Montage Health$97$83.04–$111.051
Mount Sinai Health System$86$85.941
Alameda Health System$85.50$64.15–$106.921
Sutter Health$85.50$71.18–$99.651
Providence Life Services$77.50$60–$951
By the Bay Health$70.75$65.70–$75.701
Legacy Health$70.75$56.68–$84.661
Samaritan Health Services$70.50$55.53–$85.291
Catholic Health (Long Island)$65$651

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.

Hospice nurse pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$70.25$57.50–$85.50$67.44 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)20
Washington$57.50$55–$59.50$59.71 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)22
New York$52.75$46–$65$52.62 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Minnesota$47.75$46.25–$51.25$48.80 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Illinois$45$44.50–$49.25$46.15 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)20
Virginia$43.25$41.50–$48.25$45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)13
Maryland$41.50$40.75–$48$47.98 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)13
South Dakota$39.50$38.75–$40$37.53 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Night shift hospice nurse pay

Where one employer posts both night and other hospice nurse jobs in the same state (4 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
GBMC HealthCare, MD$40.75 (3)$40.75 (7)
Sanford Health, SD$40 (1)$40 (4)
Tri-Cities Chaplaincy, WA$52.50 (1)$52.50 (3)
UnitedHealth Group, TN$43 (1)$45.50 (2)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Hospice nurse jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

148 open jobs from 35 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $91,100, the middle half $86,200 to $98,100, from $58,800 to $194,251 posted.

Best-paid open hospice nurse jobs

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

Every open job: Hospice nurse 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
Registered Nurses (29-1141)$33.14 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$38.62 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$46.90 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$54.02 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$66.09 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)3,379,720 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($46.50) is $0.40 below the BLS median ($46.90 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Registered Nurses, 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 nurse salary: common questions

How much does a hospice nurse make an hour?

Open hospice nurse jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $46.50, with the middle half between $42–$56.50 (187 jobs from 67 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 $46.90/hr ($97,550 a year) for registered nurses in May 2025.

How much does a hospice nurse make a year?

At the posted median of $46.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $96,700, and the middle half to $87,400 to $117,500. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 148 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $91,100.

Which states pay hospice nurses the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($70.25), Washington ($57.50) and New York ($52.75). The lowest: South Dakota ($39.50), Maryland ($41.50) and Virginia ($43.25). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay hospice nurses the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: CommonSpirit Health ($65), Compassus ($56) and Suncrest Health Services ($55). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift hospice nurses earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other hospice nurse jobs in the same state (4 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

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: 187 of 847 open hospice nurse jobs (22%) 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: Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Registered Nurses by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Registered Nurses (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

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

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