The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in South Carolina is $1,865 per week, with the middle half between $1,849 and $1,946. Measured across 8 active travel ER contracts in South Carolina 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 21 percent under the $2,357 national median for travel ER contracts.
South Carolina 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 2 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 3 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 1 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 1 |
All 8 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
South Carolina has the 33th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 20 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spartanburg | 2 | $2,135 | $1,070/mo |
| Beaufort | 1 | $1,933 | $1,490/mo |
| Camden | 1 | $1,854 | — |
| Columbia | 1 | $1,854 | $1,210/mo |
| Easley | 1 | $1,985 | $1,005/mo |
| Greenwood | 1 | $1,875 | $785/mo |
| Orangeburg | 1 | $1,829 | $1,000/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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