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Medical social worker salary

Open medical social worker jobs post a median of $41.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $36.75–$52.25: about $86,300 a year full time. Measured from 162 jobs at 70 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$41.50
Median posted /hr
$37–$52
Middle half /hr
$86,300
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$32.63
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Medical social worker jobs · A specialty of social worker pay

What medical social workers 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 162 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $18, the highest $79.49.

Posted on open jobs

$36.75–$52.25/hr

Middle half of 126 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $41.50. 27% of the 597 open medical social worker jobs state an hourly rate. 1 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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Medical social worker pay by employer

What each employer posts for medical social workers, 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
Kaiser Permanente$52$32.16–$75.9018
Advocate Health$38.50$30.70–$46.059
UnitedHealth Group$38$27.15–$55.058
Amedisys$39.75$25–$676
Sutter Health$65$43.99–$79.495
Providence$55.50$36.99–$75.585
CommonSpirit Health$36$25.55–$67.035
Sharp HealthCare$52.75$36–$62.704
MultiCare Health System$43$33.52–$66.154
Northwestern Medicine$40.25$32.78–$48.964
Carle Health$38.75$27.36–$55.404
Mary Washington Healthcare$37$30.90–$45.424
Avera Health$35.75$25.50–$444
Stanford Medicine Children's Health$63$49.42–$66.623
Access TLC$55$35–$753
Overlake Medical Center$53.75$41.11–$683
OSF HealthCare$34.25$31.49–$37.053
AdventHealth$33.25$20.80–$44.533
Lee Health$31.75$27.57–$35.843
UW Medicine$68$67.93–$68.032
Stanford Health Care$60.75$47.32–$76.222
Cedars-Sinai$56$48.27–$78.582
Atlantic Health$48$34.82–$61.262
Compassus$45.50$35.81–$57.502
Brown University Health$41.25$29.53–$53.712
Allina Health$40.50$31.07–$49.762
Endeavor Health$38.75$31.06–$46.592
United Health Services (New York)$38.25$30.58–$45.862
VCU Health$36.75$28.22–$46.512
Transitions Group$36$33–$382
UAB Medicine$31.50$24.05–$39.102
Moments Hospice$30.50$26–$352
Mount Sinai Health System$56.75$55.04–$58.341
WhidbeyHealth$55.75$42.95–$68.771
By the Bay Health$52.50$46.60–$58.301
Careage$50$45–$54.851
Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura$50$40.33–$59.651
Jet Health$50$35–$651
Foundation Health$47.25$36.44–$58.301
Southcoast Health System$46.50$46.521

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.

Medical social worker 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$55.25$51.25–$63.25$43.11 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)32
Washington$54.75$47–$57$37.77 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)18
New York$39.50$37–$44.25$35.13 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
Illinois$39$38–$41.25$30.90 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Virginia$36.50$35–$38.50$31.99 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12

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).

Medical social worker 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.

92 open jobs from 38 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $82,400, the middle half $73,500 to $89,900, from $43,000 to $163,446 posted.

Best-paid open medical social worker jobs

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

Every open job: Medical social worker 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
Healthcare Social Workers (21-1022)$22.22 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$27.27 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$32.63 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$39.54 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$48.25 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Social Workers, opens in a new tab)187,630 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Social Workers, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($41.50) is $8.87 above the BLS median ($32.63 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Healthcare Social Workers, 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.

Medical social worker salary: common questions

How much does a medical social worker make an hour?

Open medical social worker jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $41.50, with the middle half between $36.75–$52.25 (162 jobs from 70 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 $32.63/hr ($67,880 a year) for healthcare social workers in May 2025.

How much does a medical social worker make a year?

At the posted median of $41.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $86,300, and the middle half to $76,400 to $108,700. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 92 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $82,400.

Which states pay medical social workers the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($55.25), Washington ($54.75) and New York ($39.50). The lowest: Virginia ($36.50), Illinois ($39) and New York ($39.50). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay medical social workers the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Sutter Health ($65), Providence ($55.50) and Kaiser Permanente ($52). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

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: 162 of 597 open medical social worker jobs (27%) 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: Healthcare Social Workers (SOC 21-1022), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Healthcare Social Workers by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Healthcare Social Workers (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Medical social worker salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/medical-social-worker

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