The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Texas is $2,201 per week, with the middle half between $2,089 and $2,644. Measured across 11 active travel L&D contracts in Texas at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 17 percent under the $2,649 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 3 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 and up | 1 |
All 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | 2 | $2,078 | $1,430/mo |
| Midland | 2 | $2,583 | $1,590/mo |
| Allen | 1 | $2,099 | $1,980/mo |
| Austin | 1 | $2,201 | $1,750/mo |
| Brownwood | 1 | $3,073 | — |
| Kerrville | 1 | $1,987 | $940/mo |
| Lubbock | 1 | $2,154 | $1,010/mo |
| Odessa | 1 | $2,700 | $1,300/mo |
| Tyler | 1 | $2,869 | $1,080/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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