The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Connecticut is $2,406 per week, with the middle half between $2,388 and $2,815. Measured across 15 active travel ER contracts in Connecticut at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 7 percent over the $2,256 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 6 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 and up | 4 |
All 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartford | 7 | $2,393 | $1,220/mo |
| Bridgeport | 3 | $2,987 | $1,510/mo |
| New Haven | 2 | $2,363 | $1,600/mo |
| Farmington | 1 | $2,643 | $1,780/mo |
| Milford | 1 | $2,421 | $1,965/mo |
| New London | 1 | $3,046 | $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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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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