The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Minnesota is $2,640 per week, with the middle half between $2,566 and $2,924. Measured across 12 active travel L&D contracts in Minnesota at 10 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent over the $2,614 national median for travel L&D contracts.
Minnesota is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Minnesota 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 $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 1 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 4 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 2 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 1 |
| $3,000 to $3,150 | 1 |
| $3,150 to $3,300 | 1 |
| $3,300 and up | 1 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Minnesota has the 22th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 9 percent under, while goods sit 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coon Rapids | 2 | $2,569 | $1,505/mo |
| St Cloud | 2 | $2,422 | — |
| Fergus Falls | 1 | $2,887 | — |
| Little Falls | 1 | $2,782 | — |
| Marshall | 1 | $3,035 | — |
| Minneapolis | 1 | $2,439 | $1,350/mo |
| New Ulm | 1 | $2,569 | — |
| Redwood Falls | 1 | $2,712 | — |
| Shakopee | 1 | $3,378 | $1,480/mo |
| Wyoming | 1 | $3,193 | — |
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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