The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in New York is $2,934 per week, with the middle half between $2,421 and $2,982. Measured across 10 active travel L&D contracts in New York at 8 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 7 percent over the $2,753 national median for travel L&D contracts.
New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. 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 $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,100 | 4 |
| $3,100 to $3,300 | 0 |
| $3,300 to $3,500 | 1 |
| $3,500 and up | 1 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2 | $2,934 | $2,720/mo |
| Newburgh | 2 | $2,385 | $1,370/mo |
| Rochester | 2 | $2,971 | $1,090/mo |
| Syracuse | 2 | $3,535 | $1,100/mo |
| Corning | 1 | $2,527 | $1,000/mo |
| White Plains | 1 | $2,284 | $2,970/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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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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