Hospice Aide Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

CaregiverHires had 705 open hospice aide listings from 71 employers on November 6, 2026.

180 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 388 in the previous 30 days.

At least 11.1% of hospice aide listings were part-time on November 6, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit hospice aide listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was paid time off, in 58.3% of listings, followed by health insurance (57.7%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all hospice aide listings.

BLS publishes no hospice aide-only wage, so the figure here is for home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), a combined BLS occupation used only as a labelled proxy, because BLS has no hospice aide occupation.

The median wage for that occupation was $17.21 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Home Health and Personal Care Aides (SOC 31-1120), May 2025 (proxy)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $15.35 to $18.98 an hour.

Employers hiring hospice aides on CaregiverHires advertise a median of $21.50 an hour across 27 employers on November 6, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Ohio had the most open hospice aide listings on November 6, 2026, with 69 (9.8% of the national total).

Texas followed with 43 (6.1%).

71 employers had open hospice aide listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 48.9% of them.

25 employers (35.2%) had exactly one open hospice aide listing.

BLS has no hospice aide occupation; most hospice aides are counted as home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120) or as nursing assistants, so this page uses the first group, 4,305,810 payroll jobs at a median of $17.21 an hour in May 2025, only as a labelled proxy (BLS OEWS).

Medicare hospice aides must complete at least 75 hours of combined classroom and supervised practical training and receive at least 12 hours of in-service training every 12 months (42 CFR 418.76, as of 2026).

A registered nurse must visit the patient's home to supervise hospice aide services at least every 14 days (42 CFR 418.76, as of 2026).

As of February 19, 2026, HPCC counted 1,328 active Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing Assistant (CHPNA) credentials, and 79.5% of first-time CHPNA candidates passed in 2025, 232 of 292 (HPCC exam statistics).

BLS notes that some home health and personal care aides work with a single client, sometimes for a specific purpose such as hospice care (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025).

BLS projects the home health and personal care aide group to grow 18.1% from 2025 to 2035 with about 760,500 openings a year; the projection covers the whole group, not hospice aides alone (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid hospice aide listing on CaregiverHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all hospice aide jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no hospice aide occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), the group most hospice aides are counted in, shown only as a labelled proxy: they are not a count or wage of hospice aides. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.