The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in North Carolina is $2,512 per week, with the middle half between $2,329 and $2,803. Measured across 14 active travel L&D contracts in North Carolina at 10 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 4 percent under the $2,604 national median for travel L&D contracts.
North Carolina 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 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 3 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 and up | 4 |
All 14 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
North Carolina has the 31th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 19 percent under, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eden | 2 | $2,880 | $770/mo |
| Goldsboro | 2 | $2,811 | $875/mo |
| Greensboro | 2 | $2,275 | $1,080/mo |
| Morganton | 2 | $2,316 | — |
| Charlotte | 1 | $2,467 | $1,820/mo |
| Durham | 1 | $2,832 | $1,630/mo |
| Elizabeth City | 1 | $2,727 | $880/mo |
| Hendersonville | 1 | $2,532 | $1,350/mo |
| Mooresville | 1 | $2,814 | $1,565/mo |
| Pinehurst | 1 | $2,362 | $1,540/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.
Browse the board for current L&D assignments in North Carolina.
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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