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Wound care nurse salary

Open wound care nurse jobs post a median of $47.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $42.75–$59.50: about $98,300 a year full time. Measured from 124 jobs at 74 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$47.25
Median posted /hr
$43–$60
Middle half /hr
$98,300
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$46.90
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Wound care nurse jobs · A specialty of registered nurse pay

What wound care 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 124 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $22.50, the highest $133.26.

Posted on open jobs

$42.75–$59.50/hr

Middle half of 109 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $47.25. 31% of the 397 open wound care nurse jobs state an hourly rate. 24 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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Wound care nurse pay by employer

What each employer posts for wound care 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
CommonSpirit Health$46.25$32.01–$90.357
AdventHealth$42.25$30.70–$59.837
Providence$62$38.09–$93.515
Healogics$44.75$37.78–$50.265
BJC HealthCare$40.25$32–$48.285
Sentara Health$54.25$41.93–$68.554
Sutter Health$85.75$62.30–$109.883
Advocate Health$47.75$38.20–$57.303
Tenet Healthcare$47$29.06–$57.273
Fundamental Healthcare$39$37–$453
Kaiser Permanente$99.50$76.25–$133.262
MemorialCare$72.25$54.06–$84.762
MultiCare Health System$67$44.13–$90.832
Ascend Medical$55$45–$652
ScionHealth$51.25$42.80–$60.142
Mayo Clinic$50$35.84–$63.502
HealthPartners$47.50$37.46–$57.882
Central Valley Specialty Hospital$46.25$30–$652
Ascension$45.75$35.46–$57.052
Genesis HealthCare$45.50$43–$49.502
Hackensack Meridian Health$44.50$43.77–$45.142
Emory Healthcare$44$43–$45.152
TidalHealth$44$33–$54.562
Carle Health$43.50$33.11–$53.882
Monument Health$38.25$32–$442
Stanford Health Care$103.75$96.35–$111.141
Montage Health$97$83.04–$111.051
Sharp HealthCare$90.25$90.251
Mount Sinai Health System$84.50$84.591
Salinas Valley Health$81.50$73.62–$89.491
Huntington Health$74$58.55–$89.291
Legacy Health$71.75$57.63–$86.081
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$68$47.64–$88.191
St. Charles Health System$66.50$53.25–$79.881
Allina Health$63$47.32–$78.791
Samaritan Health Services$63$40.88–$85.291
Kaweah Health$60.50$48.30–$72.451
CentraState Healthcare System$59.50$44–$74.801
RWJBarnabas Health$57.50$47.85–$67.041
Emerson Hospital$56.75$37.88–$75.781

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.

Wound care 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$74$56.25–$88$67.44 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)19

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).

Wound care 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.

11 open jobs from 10 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $104,500, the middle half $91,000 to $123,700, from $46,072 to $180,900 posted.

Best-paid open wound care nurse jobs

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

Every open job: Wound care 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 ($47.25) is $0.35 above 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.

Wound care nurse salary: common questions

How much does a wound care nurse make an hour?

Open wound care nurse jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $47.25, with the middle half between $42.75–$59.50 (124 jobs from 74 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 wound care nurse make a year?

At the posted median of $47.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $98,300, and the middle half to $88,900 to $123,800. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 11 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $104,500.

Which employers pay wound care nurses the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Providence ($62), CommonSpirit Health ($46.25) and Healogics ($44.75). 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: 124 of 397 open wound care nurse jobs (31%) 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). Wound care nurse salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/wound-care-nurse

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