The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Missouri is $2,215 per week, with the middle half between $2,157 and $2,223. Measured across 18 active travel ER contracts in Missouri at 10 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 2 percent under the $2,263 national median for travel ER contracts.
Missouri 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 2 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 5 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 8 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 2 |
All 18 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Missouri has the 39th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 30 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Louis | 4 | $2,233 | — |
| Bolivar | 2 | $2,099 | $690/mo |
| Columbia | 2 | $2,216 | $865/mo |
| Florissant | 2 | $2,157 | $1,295/mo |
| North Kansas City | 2 | $2,170 | — |
| Osage Beach | 2 | $2,227 | $690/mo |
| West Plains | 2 | $2,215 | — |
| Kansas City | 1 | $2,409 | $1,220/mo |
| Rolla | 1 | $2,124 | $690/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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