Hospice Social Worker Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Broader BLS occupation: SOC 21-1022 Healthcare Social Workers
BLS publishes no separate wage for hospice social workers.
All healthcare social workers (SOC 21-1022 Healthcare Social Workers), the broader occupation they are counted in, earned a median $67,880 a year ($32.63 an hour) in May 2025.
The middle half of that group earned between $56,710 and $82,240.
BLS does not report hospice social workers separately; this is every healthcare social worker on payroll (21-1022).
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 Healthcare Social Workers
| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $46,220 | $22.22 |
| 25th | $56,710 | $27.27 |
| 50th (median) | $67,880 | $32.63 |
| 75th | $82,240 | $39.54 |
| 90th | $100,360 | $48.25 |
| Mean (average) | $71,790 | $34.51 |
SOC 21-1022 Healthcare Social Workers, the broader occupation (not a hospice social worker series): 187,630 wage-and-salary jobs, BLS OEWS May 2025.
Pay by employer type
National median for all healthcare social workers (SOC 21-1022) by the industry of the employer, BLS OEWS May 2025 industry estimates.
BLS publishes no setting split for hospice social workers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitals | $78,420 | $37.70 | 55,770 |
| Home health care services | $70,680 | $33.98 | 26,430 |
| Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing) | $60,630 | $29.15 | 13,920 |
Selected senior care and health care industries only; the national figure above covers every industry.
Job outlook for Healthcare Social Workers
BLS projects employment of all healthcare social workers to grow from about 194,800 in 2025 to 211,300 in 2035 (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).
BLS projects no separate figure for hospice social workers.
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.