The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Florida is $2,024 per week, with the middle half between $1,889 and $2,184. Measured across 33 active travel ER contracts in Florida at 17 facilities, as of 2026-11-10.
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 14 percent under the $2,353 national median for travel ER contracts.
Florida 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 $1,800 | 3 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 6 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 5 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 7 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 4 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 and up | 2 |
All 33 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Florida has the 11th 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 22 percent over, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kissimmee | 4 | $2,124 | $1,710/mo |
| Orlando | 4 | $2,141 | $1,830/mo |
| Fort Myers | 3 | $2,184 | $1,525/mo |
| Gainesville | 3 | $2,233 | $1,300/mo |
| Melbourne | 3 | $1,925 | $1,710/mo |
| Coral Springs | 2 | $2,085 | $2,060/mo |
| Fort Lauderdale | 2 | $1,853 | $1,930/mo |
| Panama City | 2 | $1,686 | $1,380/mo |
| Sebring | 2 | $2,024 | $950/mo |
| Tampa | 2 | $2,415 | $1,880/mo |
| Cocoa Beach | 1 | $1,925 | $1,570/mo |
| Jacksonville | 1 | $1,686 | $1,430/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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