The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in North Carolina is $2,381 per week, with the middle half between $2,318 and $2,568. Measured across 10 active travel L&D contracts in North Carolina 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 14 percent under the $2,767 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 and up | 2 |
All 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarboro | 2 | $2,542 | $840/mo |
| Wilmington | 2 | $2,251 | $1,430/mo |
| Concord | 1 | $2,080 | $1,455/mo |
| Edenton | 1 | $2,604 | — |
| Goldsboro | 1 | $2,854 | $875/mo |
| Morganton | 1 | $2,396 | — |
| Pinehurst | 1 | $2,460 | $1,540/mo |
| Winston Salem | 1 | $2,367 | — |
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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