The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Pennsylvania is $2,420 per week, with the middle half between $2,396 and $2,473. Measured across 11 active travel ER contracts in Pennsylvania at 8 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 over the $2,358 national median for travel ER contracts.
Pennsylvania 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 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 7 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Pennsylvania has the 24th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh | 4 | $2,477 | $960/mo |
| Pottstown | 2 | $2,419 | $1,310/mo |
| Huntingdon | 1 | $1,768 | — |
| Lancaster | 1 | $2,386 | $1,100/mo |
| Natrona Heights | 1 | $2,474 | — |
| Philadelphia | 1 | $2,059 | $1,355/mo |
| West Reading | 1 | $2,405 | — |
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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