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

CaregiverHires had 2,209 open hospice nurse listings from 124 employers on November 6, 2026.

493 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 1,182 in the previous 30 days.

At least 11.9% of hospice nurse 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 nurse listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was health insurance, in 61.4% of listings, followed by paid time off (59%).

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

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

BLS publishes no hospice nurse-only wage, so the figure here is for registered nurses (SOC 29-1141), all RNs in every setting, used because BLS publishes no hospice nurse figure.

The median wage for that occupation was $46.90 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141), May 2025 (all settings)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $38.62 to $54.02 an hour.

Employers hiring hospice nurses on CaregiverHires advertise a median of $43.50 an hour across 37 employers on November 6, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Florida had the most open hospice nurse listings on November 6, 2026, with 315 (14.3% of the national total).

California followed with 211 (9.6%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with hospice nurse openings in Florida.

124 employers had open hospice nurse listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 44.5% of them.

26 employers (21%) had exactly one open hospice nurse listing.

BLS publishes no hospice-only nurse wage: registered nurses earned a national median of $46.90 an hour ($97,550 a year) in May 2025 across all settings, with industry medians of $48.18 in hospitals, $41.11 in skilled nursing facilities and $40.83 in home health care services (BLS OEWS).

Employers reported 3,379,720 registered nurses on payroll in all settings in May 2025; the count leaves out the self-employed (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1141).

BLS projects employment of registered nurses, self-employed included, to grow 5.6% from 2025 to 2035, from 3,465,400 to 3,660,100 jobs, with about 180,800 openings a year; the projection covers RNs in every setting, not hospice alone (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

A Medicare hospice must routinely provide substantially all core services, nursing included, through its own employees, using contracted staff only to supplement them in extraordinary or non-routine circumstances (42 CFR 418.64, as of 2026).

As of February 19, 2026, the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center counted 7,283 active Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN) credentials (HPCC exam statistics).

HPCC reported a 2025 first-time pass rate of 69.3% on the CHPN exam, 825 of 1,190 first-time candidates (HPCC exam statistics).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid hospice nurse 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 nurse 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 nurse occupation and no hospice industry wage. The BLS figures on this page are for all registered nurses (SOC 29-1141) in every setting, so they are not a count or wage of hospice nurses alone. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.