Hospice Chaplain Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Closest available occupation (weak match): SOC 21-2011 Clergy
Closest available, and a weak match: BLS has no hospice chaplain occupation.
This is clergy across every industry (21-2011), most of them employed by congregations.
The figure shown is the median for all clergy (SOC 21-2011): $60,810 a year ($29.24 an hour) in May 2025.
It is a labelled benchmark, not hospice chaplain pay.
Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed, workers employed directly by private households (such as caregivers hired by families), overtime pay and most bonuses.
What the BLS figure covers
These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 21-2011 Clergy, the closest available occupation, a weak match for this title, shown only as a benchmark.
BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for hospice chaplains, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.