The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in New York is $2,484 per week, with the middle half between $2,385 and $3,093. Measured across 45 active travel ER contracts in New York at 24 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 5 percent over the $2,355 national median for travel ER contracts.
New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. 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 $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,500 | 22 |
| $2,500 to $2,700 | 8 |
| $2,700 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,100 | 2 |
| $3,100 to $3,300 | 3 |
| $3,300 to $3,500 | 8 |
All 45 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | 15 | $2,574 | $1,090/mo |
| Schenectady | 5 | $2,484 | $1,230/mo |
| Utica | 4 | $3,333 | $980/mo |
| Flushing | 2 | $2,372 | — |
| Lowville | 2 | $2,404 | — |
| Plattsburgh | 2 | $3,243 | — |
| Rome | 2 | $2,436 | $940/mo |
| Brooklyn | 1 | $2,571 | — |
| Clifton Springs | 1 | $2,347 | — |
| Cortland | 1 | $3,325 | $1,300/mo |
| Cortlandt Manor | 1 | $2,503 | — |
| Geneva | 1 | $2,260 | — |
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 rose 0.8 percent, from $2,484 to $2,503 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 41 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
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.
All 49 states with ER openings