The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Georgia is $1,872 per week, with the middle half between $1,863 and $1,880. Measured across 9 active travel ER contracts in Georgia at 5 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 21 percent under the $2,355 national median for travel ER contracts.
Georgia 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 0 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 9 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 0 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Georgia has the 27th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 11 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockbridge | 5 | $1,880 | $1,570/mo |
| Cartersville | 1 | $1,859 | $1,265/mo |
| Columbus | 1 | $1,863 | $885/mo |
| Conyers | 1 | $1,896 | $1,540/mo |
| Snellville | 1 | $1,855 | $1,910/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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