The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Louisiana is $2,078 per week, with the middle half between $2,053 and $2,078. Measured across 10 active travel ER contracts in Louisiana 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 12 percent under the $2,368 national median for travel ER contracts.
Louisiana 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 | 1 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 1 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 7 |
| $2,100 and up | 1 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Louisiana has the 47th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slidell | 4 | $2,078 | $1,250/mo |
| New Orleans | 2 | $2,053 | $1,260/mo |
| Baton Rouge | 1 | $2,078 | $1,040/mo |
| Lake Charles | 1 | $2,199 | $865/mo |
| Monroe | 1 | $2,078 | $780/mo |
| Shreveport | 1 | $1,825 | $880/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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