The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Texas is $1,997 per week, with the middle half between $1,827 and $2,329. Measured across 35 active travel ER contracts in Texas 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 15 percent under the $2,353 national median for travel ER contracts.
Texas 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 $1,600 | 2 |
| $1,600 to $1,800 | 5 |
| $1,800 to $2,000 | 12 |
| $2,000 to $2,200 | 4 |
| $2,200 to $2,400 | 5 |
| $2,400 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,800 | 4 |
| $2,800 and up | 2 |
All 35 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Texas has the 25th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 3 percent under, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler | 3 | $1,996 | $1,080/mo |
| Wichita Falls | 3 | $2,252 | $885/mo |
| Amarillo | 2 | $2,485 | $920/mo |
| Bryan | 2 | $1,830 | $1,140/mo |
| Dallas | 2 | $1,679 | $1,530/mo |
| Jacksonville | 2 | $2,139 | — |
| Lufkin | 2 | $1,827 | — |
| Midland | 2 | $2,396 | $1,590/mo |
| Sweetwater | 2 | $1,997 | — |
| Brownwood | 1 | $2,726 | — |
| Denton | 1 | $1,679 | $1,470/mo |
| El Paso | 1 | $2,722 | $1,020/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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 5.9 percent, from $2,128 to $2,001 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 36 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