Travel LTAC Nurse Pay

The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC (long-term acute care) contract is $2,060 per week. The middle half of contracts fall between $1,942 and $2,189. Measured across 39 active travel contracts at 22 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

These are advertised weekly totals, a taxable hourly base plus tax-free housing and meal stipends. They are not take-home, and the tax-free half depends on maintaining a tax home. How to read a pay package explains the split.

Travel LTAC pay by state

StateOpen contractsMedian weekly
Ohio5$1,860
Pennsylvania5$2,064
Iowa4$2,225
South Carolina4$2,552
Kansas4$2,085
Louisiana3$1,985
Tennessee2$1,970
Wisconsin2$2,052
New Jersey2$2,050
West Virginia1$1,915
Georgia1$2,522
Minnesota1$2,355
Missouri1$2,271
Mississippi1$1,806
North Carolina1$1,942
Nebraska1$1,915
Alabama1$1,915

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.

Where every open LTAC contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$1,800 to $1,9006
$1,900 to $2,0009
$2,000 to $2,10013
$2,100 to $2,2001
$2,200 to $2,3005
$2,300 to $2,4001
$2,400 and up4

All 39 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Open LTAC contracts

Browse open LTAC assignments on the board.

What LTAC 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.

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Common questions

How much does a travel LTAC nurse make?
The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC contract is $2,060 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $1,942 and $2,189. Measured across 39 active travel contracts at 22 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this LTAC 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.