The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in New Hampshire is $2,663 per week, with the middle half between $2,601 and $2,713. Measured across 6 active travel L&D contracts in New Hampshire at 3 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
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 3 percent under the $2,749 national median for travel L&D contracts.
New Hampshire 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 $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,650 | 1 |
| $2,650 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 3 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 0 |
All 6 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Hampshire has the 9th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keene | 4 | $2,663 | $1,220/mo |
| Manchester | 1 | $2,448 | $1,550/mo |
| Peterborough | 1 | $2,715 | — |
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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