Byline: Helena Cross, health care labor reporter covering hospital case management and community-care jobs for 11 years
Last reviewed: June 29, 2026
Inspira Health’s public MSW social worker postings show hourly ranges from $37.42 to just over $51 per hour in 2026. A full-time Care Coordination MSW posting dated April 29, 2026 lists $37.42 to $50.35 per hour, while a full-time LIFE Case Management MSW posting dated June 16, 2026 lists $37.42 to $51.36 per hour.
That sits well above the BLS May 2024 national median wage for social workers, which was $61,330 per year. The comparison is useful, but it is not simple because hospital MSW jobs, case management, community health work, and social-service management are different labor lanes.
The clearest MSW range is around $37 to $51 per hour
The strongest employer-specific evidence comes from Inspira’s own job postings.
The “Social Worker, MSW – Care Coordination, Full-Time, Day, Mullica Hill” posting dated April 29, 2026 lists Req. Number 20062654 and a pay range of $37.42 to $50.35 per hour. The “Social Worker, MSW – Case Management – LIFE, Full-Time, Day” posting dated June 16, 2026 lists Req. Number 20063108 and a pay range of $37.42 to $51.36 per hour.
Those are not anonymous salary estimates. They are public employer postings with dates, job type, shift, requisition numbers, and ranges.
Annualized at 2,080 hours, the Care Coordination range equals $77,833.60 to $104,728. The LIFE Case Management range equals $77,833.60 to $106,828.80. That math is only a comparison tool because actual earnings can vary with schedule, paid hours, unpaid time, benefits, overtime, and where a hire lands inside the range.
The central read: Inspira’s posted MSW hospital roles sit in a professional clinical-care band, not in a low-wage social-service support band.
Why BLS social worker data is only a baseline
BLS reports broad occupational pay, not Inspira payroll.
The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook says the median annual wage for social workers was $61,330 in May 2024. It also says the lowest 10% earned less than $41,580 and the highest 10% earned more than $99,500. Overall employment of social workers is projected to grow 6% from 2024 to 2034, with about 74,000 openings each year on average over the decade.
Inspira’s posted MSW floor annualizes above the BLS national median. The top of the Inspira range annualizes above the BLS national 90th-percentile threshold of $99,500.
That sounds like a clean “above market” claim. It is not.
BLS includes many kinds of social workers across child, family, school, health care, mental health, substance abuse, government, nonprofit, and community settings. A hospital MSW care coordination job can require different experience, pace, documentation, discharge planning, patient-family communication, and interdisciplinary work than a community nonprofit role.
The sharper interpretation is that Inspira’s posted MSW roles are priced like specialized hospital social-work and case-management jobs, not like the broad social-worker median.
Pay table: MSW, CHW, and BLS benchmarks
| Role or source | Public pay figure | What it shows | Main limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspira MSW Care Coordination, April 29, 2026 | $37.42 to $50.35/hour | Full-time day hospital care-coordination posting | One requisition, not systemwide average |
| Inspira MSW LIFE Case Management, June 16, 2026 | $37.42 to $51.36/hour | Full-time day case-management posting | LIFE program role, not all MSW jobs |
| Annualized Inspira MSW Care Coordination | $77,833.60 to $104,728/year | 2,080-hour comparison | Not guaranteed earnings |
| BLS Social Workers, May 2024 | $61,330/year median | National occupational baseline | Not hospital-specific |
| BLS Social Workers, May 2024 | $99,500+ for highest 10% | Upper national benchmark | Broad occupation |
| Inspira Community Health Worker, 2026 posting | $20.07 to $28.65/hour | Community-facing population health role | Not an MSW role |
| BLS Community Health Workers, May 2024 | $51,030/year median | National CHW baseline | Not employer-specific |
Community health worker pay sits in another lane
A separate Inspira “Population Health, Full-Time, Gloucester County” posting lists $20.07 to $28.65 per hour for a Community Health Worker role. The posting says CHWs help patients address social, medical, and community problems that lead to poor health, including practical issues that keep people from staying healthy.
That role is close to social work in mission, but not identical in labor-market pricing.
BLS reports the May 2024 median annual wage for community health workers at $51,030 and projects 11% employment growth from 2024 to 2034. Annualized at 2,080 hours, Inspira’s CHW posting equals $41,745.60 to $59,592.
The gap between the CHW posting and MSW postings is large. Inspira’s MSW floor of $37.42 per hour is $17.35 higher than the CHW floor of $20.07. The MSW ceiling of $51.36 is $22.71 higher than the CHW ceiling of $28.65.
That difference is the labor-market story. Care navigation and community support may overlap in patient goals, but credentialing, clinical responsibility, discharge complexity, and case-management scope can change pay sharply.
Where the headline number misleads
The $51.36 top rate in the MSW LIFE Case Management posting can become misleading if it is treated as the normal Inspira social worker wage.
It is a top-of-range figure from one full-time day posting. It does not show where new hires start, how experience is credited, whether licensure changes placement, how internal equity is handled, or whether similar jobs at other locations use the same range.
The floor also needs context. $37.42 per hour annualizes above the national BLS social-worker median, but BLS is broad. A hospital MSW job may not be comparable to a school social worker, community nonprofit role, county agency role, or entry-level case aide role.
The headline figure is real. Its scope is narrow.
Why care coordination pays differently
Hospital care coordination is tied to patient flow, discharge planning, family communication, payer rules, post-acute placement, community resources, and risk management. That makes the MSW role both clinical and operational.
A social worker in a hospital may help arrange placement, coordinate services, support patients with complex barriers, document interventions, work with nurses and physicians, and keep discharge plans from falling apart. That work can affect length of stay, readmissions, patient experience, and whether a person can safely leave the hospital.
This is the interpretive point: MSW pay in a hospital is partly compensation for complexity. The wage is not only paying for empathy or paperwork. It is paying for judgment inside a high-pressure system where social barriers can delay medical care.
A community health worker may also solve serious problems, but the job is positioned differently in the wage structure.
The hospital budget behind these roles
Inspira’s 2025 Annual Report lists Salaries and Wages at 40% of expenses, Supplies and Other Expenses at 34%, Employee Health and Wellness at 13%, Depreciation and Amortization at 7%, Physician Fees at 5%, and Interest at 1%.
That expense structure matters because social work and care coordination are not free-floating support services. They are part of the same labor-heavy operating model as nursing, pharmacy, imaging, EMS, respiratory therapy, and medical assistants.
The revenue mix adds another layer. The same annual report lists 36% Medicare, 22% Commercial and Other Managed Care, 21% Blue Cross, 13% Medicaid, 4% Charity Care and Other State Subsidies, 4% Self-pay and Other, and 0% CARES Act Funds.
Care coordination often lives where clinical need, insurance coverage, and social need collide. That makes these roles hard to judge only by hourly rate.
Workforce scale matters
Inspira’s About page says the system has 7,800 employees, more than 1,400 physicians and advanced practice providers, and more than 300 residents and fellows in 17 nationally accredited programs.
A workforce that large creates many handoff points. Patients move across emergency departments, inpatient units, outpatient clinics, specialists, community programs, and post-acute settings. Social workers and care coordinators often sit in the seams between those settings.
That is why the MSW postings should be read as part of a system role, not as isolated social-service jobs. In a hospital network, care coordination can influence capacity, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and reimbursement workflows.
One title can touch several systems.
What salary sites would miss here
A broad salary-site estimate for “social worker” can flatten the distinction between MSW care coordination, case management, community health work, behavioral health, discharge planning, and social-service assistant roles.
That is a problem for Inspira because the public postings show a real spread. An MSW role at $37.42 to $51.36 per hour is not the same pay lane as a community health worker posting at $20.07 to $28.65 per hour. Both may address social needs. They are not priced the same way.
The better evidence hierarchy is strict: current employer postings for the exact role, BLS for occupational context, annual report for workforce economics, and salary sites only as a secondary check when sample size and job title are visible.
Data limits
Public postings show advertised ranges for open jobs. They do not show the internal step schedule, licensure premiums, supervision requirements, caseload averages, weekend expectations, overtime, benefit deductions, union coverage by role, or actual pay distribution among current employees.
BLS reports national occupational data, not Inspira payroll. Annualizing hourly wages at 2,080 hours is useful for comparison but does not prove actual annual earnings.
Data reflects public sources reviewed on June 29, 2026. New postings, closed requisitions, updated BLS wage tables, contracts, or internal HR policies may change the picture.
FAQ
How much does an Inspira social worker make?
Two 2026 Inspira MSW postings list ranges from $37.42 to $50.35 per hour and $37.42 to $51.36 per hour. Those are public ranges for specific full-time day roles, not a systemwide average.
What is that annually?
At 2,080 hours, $37.42 per hour equals $77,833.60 per year. The $51.36 top rate equals $106,828.80 per year. That is comparison math, not guaranteed earnings.
How does this compare with BLS social worker pay?
BLS reports a May 2024 national median annual wage of $61,330 for social workers. Inspira’s posted MSW floor annualizes above that median, but BLS includes many social-work settings outside hospitals.
What does Inspira pay community health workers?
A 2026 Inspira Population Health posting for a Community Health Worker role lists $20.07 to $28.65 per hour. It should not be treated as the same job as an MSW social worker role.
What does BLS say about community health workers?
BLS reports the May 2024 median annual wage for community health workers at $51,030 and projects 11% employment growth from 2024 to 2034.
Why are MSW roles higher than CHW roles?
The public data suggests different wage lanes. MSW care coordination and case management roles generally carry different credential, clinical, documentation, and discharge-planning expectations than community health worker roles.
Does the annual report show social worker pay?
No. Inspira’s 2025 Annual Report shows broad expense categories, including 40% for Salaries and Wages and 13% for Employee Health and Wellness. It does not break out social worker compensation.
What is the main caveat?
The best Inspira-specific figures are job-posting ranges. They do not show the full internal wage scale for every current employee.