The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Massachusetts is $2,578 per week, with the middle half between $2,293 and $2,773. Measured across 29 active travel ER contracts in Massachusetts at 19 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 14 percent over the $2,256 national median for travel ER contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 8 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 6 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 4 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 6 |
| $2,800 and up | 3 |
All 29 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester | 6 | $2,605 | $1,400/mo |
| Boston | 4 | $2,357 | $2,600/mo |
| Salem | 3 | $2,284 | $2,140/mo |
| Lawrence | 2 | $3,134 | $1,450/mo |
| Taunton | 2 | $2,944 | $1,720/mo |
| Beverly | 1 | $2,779 | $2,180/mo |
| Brockton | 1 | $2,489 | $2,060/mo |
| Burlington | 1 | $2,787 | $2,730/mo |
| Gloucester | 1 | $2,779 | $2,140/mo |
| Great Barrington | 1 | $2,291 | — |
| Leominster | 1 | $2,578 | $1,390/mo |
| Methuen | 1 | $2,674 | $1,510/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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