The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in New Jersey is $2,283 per week, with the middle half between $2,265 and $2,313. Measured across 13 active travel ER contracts in New Jersey at 7 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 3 percent under the $2,353 national median for travel ER contracts.
New Jersey 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 6 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 3 |
All 13 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Jersey has the 4th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 34 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey City | 4 | $2,298 | $2,030/mo |
| Hackensack | 2 | $2,265 | $1,910/mo |
| Montclair | 2 | $2,025 | $2,455/mo |
| Morristown | 2 | $2,564 | $2,540/mo |
| Brick | 1 | $2,265 | $1,685/mo |
| Camden | 1 | $2,528 | $1,310/mo |
| New Brunswick | 1 | $2,261 | $1,630/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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