Travel L&D Nurse Pay in Washington

The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Washington is $2,760 per week, with the middle half between $2,616 and $3,628. Measured across 14 active travel L&D contracts in Washington at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.

That is 4 percent over the $2,653 national median for travel L&D contracts.

Washington 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.

Where every open L&D contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
Under $2,6001
$2,600 to $2,8008
$2,800 to $3,0000
$3,000 to $3,2000
$3,200 to $3,4000
$3,400 to $3,6000
$3,600 to $3,8004
$3,800 and up1

All 14 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Washington has the 6th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 percent over, while goods sit 4 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.

L&D pay by metro in Washington

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Everett4$2,616$2,050/mo
Issaquah4$3,145$2,880/mo
Edmonds2$3,097$2,230/mo
Seattle2$2,769$2,420/mo
Spokane2$3,281$1,120/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.

Open L&D contracts in Washington

See every opening, including partner agencies.

What L&D travel roles ask for

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.

L&D pay in other states

All 47 states with L&D openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel L&D nurse make in Washington?
The median advertised pay for a travel L&D contract in Washington is $2,760 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,616 and $3,628. Measured across 14 active travel L&D contracts in Washington at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this L&D pay figure come from?
From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.