The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Texas is $2,154 per week, with the middle half between $2,112 and $2,437. Measured across 17 active travel L&D contracts in Texas at 11 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 22 percent under the $2,753 national median for travel L&D contracts.
Texas 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,950 | 3 |
| $1,950 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 5 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 3 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 1 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 and up | 2 |
All 17 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Texas has the 25th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 3 percent under, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio | 3 | $1,894 | $1,290/mo |
| Abilene | 2 | $2,257 | $940/mo |
| Fort Worth | 2 | $2,776 | $1,430/mo |
| Midland | 2 | $2,592 | $1,590/mo |
| Sweetwater | 2 | $2,112 | — |
| Flower Mound | 1 | $2,050 | $2,360/mo |
| Harlingen | 1 | $1,894 | $800/mo |
| Lubbock | 1 | $2,154 | $1,010/mo |
| Mansfield | 1 | $2,136 | $1,780/mo |
| Plainview | 1 | $2,154 | $850/mo |
| Snyder | 1 | $2,374 | — |
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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 0.0 percent, from $2,164 to $2,163 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 18 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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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