The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Massachusetts is $2,988 per week, with the middle half between $2,642 and $3,018. Measured across 11 active travel L&D contracts in Massachusetts at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 14 percent over the $2,616 national median for travel L&D contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 3 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 3 |
| $3,100 and up | 1 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem | 3 | $2,635 | $2,140/mo |
| Lawrence | 2 | $2,988 | $1,450/mo |
| Weymouth | 2 | $3,465 | $2,180/mo |
| Beverly | 1 | $3,040 | $2,180/mo |
| Boston | 1 | $2,902 | $2,600/mo |
| Great Barrington | 1 | $2,567 | — |
| Worcester | 1 | $3,028 | $1,400/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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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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