The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Minnesota is $2,718 per week, with the middle half between $2,620 and $2,788. Measured across 11 active travel L&D contracts in Minnesota at 8 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 2 percent under the $2,770 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| 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 | 5 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 and up | 2 |
All 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Cloud | 3 | $2,534 | — |
| Coon Rapids | 2 | $2,718 | $1,505/mo |
| Little Falls | 1 | $2,787 | — |
| Maplewood | 1 | $3,225 | $1,300/mo |
| Marshall | 1 | $3,158 | — |
| Minneapolis | 1 | $2,790 | $1,350/mo |
| New Ulm | 1 | $2,718 | — |
| Robbinsdale | 1 | $2,615 | — |
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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 0.6 percent, from $2,694 to $2,711 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 10 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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 L&D openings