The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Maryland is $1,866 per week, with the middle half between $1,788 and $2,000. Measured across 7 active travel L&D contracts in Maryland at 4 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 7 open contracts in Maryland, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 29 percent under the $2,616 national median for travel L&D contracts.
Maryland 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 2 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 2 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 and up | 1 |
All 7 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Maryland has the 8th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 5 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent over and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 5 | $2,000 | $1,430/mo |
| Silver Spring | 2 | $1,710 | $1,960/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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