The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Virginia is $2,135 per week, with the middle half between $2,043 and $2,487. Measured across 21 active travel ER contracts in Virginia at 11 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 6 percent under the $2,264 national median for travel ER contracts.
Virginia 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,150 | 11 |
| $2,150 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,650 | 5 |
| $2,650 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,150 | 0 |
| $3,150 to $3,400 | 4 |
All 21 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Virginia has the 16th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 0 percent over and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norfolk | 8 | $2,875 | $1,400/mo |
| Charlottesville | 4 | $2,043 | $1,410/mo |
| Fishersville | 3 | $2,080 | — |
| Falls Church | 2 | $1,943 | $2,220/mo |
| Chesapeake | 1 | $2,199 | $1,660/mo |
| Farmville | 1 | $2,135 | — |
| Norton | 1 | $1,997 | — |
| South Hill | 1 | $1,990 | — |
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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