The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Colorado is $2,275 per week, with the middle half between $2,131 and $2,439. Measured across 15 active travel ER contracts in Colorado at 12 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home.
That is 3 percent under the $2,355 national median for travel ER contracts.
Colorado is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so an active multistate license covers you here. A single-state license from elsewhere does not. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 4 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 15 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Colorado has the 13th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 percent under. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 3 | $2,425 | $1,750/mo |
| Denver | 2 | $2,410 | $1,820/mo |
| Greeley | 2 | $2,120 | $1,200/mo |
| Littleton | 2 | $3,019 | $1,985/mo |
| Longmont | 2 | $2,128 | $1,650/mo |
| Broomfield | 1 | $2,401 | $2,010/mo |
| Colorado Springs | 1 | $2,407 | $1,470/mo |
| Westminster | 1 | $2,098 | $1,760/mo |
| Wheat Ridge | 1 | $2,275 | $1,660/mo |
Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.
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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 0.9 percent, from $2,255 to $2,275 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 14 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
Drawn from the postings that state a requirement, which is not all of them, so each figure carries the number it was measured from. Your recruiter confirms the specifics for a given contract before submission.
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