The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC (long-term acute care) contract is $2,079 per week. The middle half of contracts fall between $1,942 and $2,134. Measured across 38 active travel contracts at 29 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
These are advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free housing and meal stipends; for almost all postings the figure is the top of an advertised range. They are not take-home, and the tax-free part depends on maintaining a tax home. How to read a pay package explains the split.
| State | Open contracts | Median weekly |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 4 | $2,127 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $2,079 |
| Ohio | 3 | $1,915 |
| South Dakota | 3 | $2,495 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $1,806 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $2,633 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $1,915 |
| Iowa | 2 | $2,404 |
| Michigan | 2 | $2,051 |
| Missouri | 2 | $2,175 |
| South Carolina | 2 | $2,087 |
| Virginia | 2 | $2,122 |
| Alabama | 2 | $1,936 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $2,078 |
| Florida | 1 | $1,778 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $1,970 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $2,050 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $1,942 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $2,095 |
Every state with an open LTAC contract. Pay varies by market, facility and shift, and a state with few contracts moves more than one with many, so treat a median drawn from a handful of postings as an indication rather than a rate.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 3 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 8 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 12 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 6 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 6 |
All 38 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 0.1 percent, from $2,077 to $2,079 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 37 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
A national median moves when the states that are posting change, not only when a rate changes, so this is published only while the share of contracts held by each state is steady across both weeks. Where it is not, no figure is shown.
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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.