The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Texas is $2,038 per week, with the middle half between $1,725 and $2,257. Measured across 17 active travel ER contracts in Texas at 14 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 10 percent under the $2,263 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,600 | 1 |
| $1,600 to $1,750 | 6 |
| $1,750 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 2 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 5 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gun Barrel City | 2 | $1,962 | — |
| Jacksonville | 2 | $1,725 | — |
| Midland | 2 | $2,252 | $1,590/mo |
| Bay City | 1 | $2,131 | $890/mo |
| Brownwood | 1 | $2,756 | — |
| Denton | 1 | $2,038 | $1,470/mo |
| El Paso | 1 | $2,956 | $1,020/mo |
| Flower Mound | 1 | $1,679 | $2,360/mo |
| Odessa | 1 | $2,269 | $1,300/mo |
| Richardson | 1 | $1,740 | $1,800/mo |
| San Antonio | 1 | $1,595 | $1,290/mo |
| Sweetwater | 1 | $1,987 | — |
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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