diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/nvhpc/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/nvhpc/package.py
index 537630e0ba3..a86ec0e06f8 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/nvhpc/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/nvhpc/package.py
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ class Nvhpc(Package, CompilerPackage):
     homepage = "https://developer.nvidia.com/hpc-sdk"
 
     maintainers("samcmill")
-    tags = ["e4s"]
+    tags = ["e4s", "compiler"]
 
     skip_version_audit = ["platform=darwin", "platform=windows"]