The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Connecticut is $2,468 per week, with the middle half between $2,444 and $3,243. Measured across 17 active travel ER contracts in Connecticut at 7 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 4 percent over the $2,362 national median for travel ER contracts.
Connecticut 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 8 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 0 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 to $3,150 | 0 |
| $3,150 to $3,300 | 7 |
All 17 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Connecticut has the 10th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 17 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 3 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Haven | 11 | $2,468 | $1,600/mo |
| Guilford | 2 | $2,468 | $1,770/mo |
| Bridgeport | 1 | $3,277 | $1,510/mo |
| Farmington | 1 | $2,663 | $1,780/mo |
| Milford | 1 | $2,468 | $1,965/mo |
| New London | 1 | $3,269 | $1,280/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 3.0 percent, from $2,395 to $2,467 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 21 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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.
All 49 states with ER openings