The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Virginia is $2,199 per week, with the middle half between $2,173 and $2,482. Measured across 17 active travel ER contracts in Virginia at 11 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 6 percent under the $2,349 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 3 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 6 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 4 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 and up | 2 |
All 17 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 | 4 | $2,579 | $1,400/mo |
| Lynchburg | 3 | $2,180 | $1,020/mo |
| Chesapeake | 2 | $2,140 | $1,660/mo |
| Harrisonburg | 2 | $2,452 | $1,100/mo |
| Charlottesville | 1 | $2,043 | $1,410/mo |
| Culpeper | 1 | $2,199 | $1,130/mo |
| Falls Church | 1 | $1,943 | $2,220/mo |
| Farmville | 1 | $2,173 | — |
| Richmond | 1 | $2,207 | $1,480/mo |
| South Hill | 1 | $2,110 | — |
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.
Browse the board for current ER assignments in Virginia.
Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 0.2 percent, from $2,204 to $2,200 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 20 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