The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Michigan is $2,452 per week, with the middle half between $2,334 and $2,475. Measured across 8 active travel L&D contracts in Michigan at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 8 open contracts in Michigan, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 6 percent under the $2,614 national median for travel L&D contracts.
Michigan is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Michigan license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 0 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 2 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 1 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 8 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Michigan has the 28th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 18 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Creek | 3 | $2,513 | $900/mo |
| Bad Axe | 1 | $2,334 | — |
| Kalamazoo | 1 | $2,458 | $960/mo |
| Marshall | 1 | $2,139 | — |
| Mount Clemens | 1 | $2,334 | $920/mo |
| Owosso | 1 | $2,447 | — |
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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