The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in North Dakota is $3,474 per week, with the middle half between $2,871 and $3,791. Measured across 9 active travel L&D contracts in North Dakota at 3 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 25 percent over the $2,770 national median for travel L&D contracts.
North Dakota 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 $2,800 | 1 |
| $2,800 to $3,050 | 2 |
| $3,050 to $3,300 | 0 |
| $3,300 to $3,550 | 3 |
| $3,550 to $3,800 | 1 |
| $3,800 to $4,050 | 0 |
| $4,050 to $4,300 | 0 |
| $4,300 and up | 2 |
All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
North Dakota has the 44th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 29 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bismarck | 8 | $3,474 | $920/mo |
| Dickinson | 1 | $2,871 | $850/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.
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