Hospice Nurse Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Broader BLS occupation: SOC 29-1141 Registered Nurses
BLS publishes no separate wage for hospice nurses.
All registered nurses (SOC 29-1141 Registered Nurses), the broader occupation they are counted in, earned a median $97,550 a year ($46.90 an hour) in May 2025.
The middle half of that group earned between $80,330 and $112,350.
BLS does not report hospice nurses separately; this is every payroll registered nurse (29-1141) in every setting.
Hospice LPNs earn less.
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.
How pay spreads across Registered Nurses
| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $68,940 | $33.14 |
| 25th | $80,330 | $38.62 |
| 50th (median) | $97,550 | $46.90 |
| 75th | $112,350 | $54.02 |
| 90th | $137,470 | $66.09 |
| Mean (average) | $101,420 | $48.76 |
SOC 29-1141 Registered Nurses, the broader occupation (not a hospice nurse series): 3,379,720 wage-and-salary jobs, BLS OEWS May 2025.
Pay by employer type
National median for all registered nurses (SOC 29-1141) by the industry of the employer, BLS OEWS May 2025 industry estimates.
BLS publishes no setting split for hospice nurses alone; these rows are for the whole occupation.
BLS publishes no hospice-only figure, so no row here is hospice pay.
| Employer industry | Median | Hourly | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| General medical and surgical hospitals | $100,210 | $48.18 | 1,902,960 |
| Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing) | $85,510 | $41.11 | 142,270 |
| Home health care services | $84,930 | $40.83 | 198,180 |
Selected senior care and health care industries only; the national figure above covers every industry.
Job outlook for Registered Nurses
BLS projects employment of all registered nurses to grow from about 3,465,400 in 2025 to 3,660,100 in 2035 (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).
BLS projects no separate figure for hospice nurses.
The projection counts include the self-employed and come from a different BLS program, so they are not directly comparable with the OEWS payroll job count above.