The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Maryland is $2,368 per week, with the middle half between $2,355 and $2,407. Measured across 11 active travel ER contracts in Maryland at 6 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 0 percent over the $2,358 national median for travel ER contracts.
Maryland 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,400 | 6 |
| $2,400 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 to $3,200 | 2 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Maryland has the 8th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 5 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent over and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 3 | $2,389 | $1,430/mo |
| Leonardtown | 3 | $2,355 | — |
| Olney | 3 | $2,060 | $2,430/mo |
| Easton | 1 | $2,368 | $1,220/mo |
| Largo | 1 | $2,379 | — |
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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 2.0 percent, from $2,429 to $2,379 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 12 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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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