The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Missouri is $2,256 per week, with the middle half between $2,241 and $2,450. Measured across 7 active travel L&D contracts in Missouri 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 Missouri, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 14 percent under the $2,615 national median for travel L&D contracts.
Missouri 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 and up | 1 |
All 7 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Missouri has the 39th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 30 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 5 percent under. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Lukes East Hospital | 3 | $2,227 | — |
| Kansas City | 2 | $2,256 | $1,220/mo |
| Richmond Heights | 1 | $2,345 | $1,090/mo |
| Sedalia | 1 | $2,554 | — |
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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