Travel LTAC Nurse Pay in Louisiana

The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC (long-term acute care) contract in Louisiana is $1,985 per week, with the middle half between $1,982 and $2,081. Measured across 3 active travel LTAC contracts in Louisiana at 1 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in Louisiana, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 4 percent under the $2,060 national median for travel LTAC contracts.

Louisiana 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 LTAC contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$1,900 to $1,9500
$1,950 to $2,0002
$2,000 to $2,0500
$2,050 to $2,1000
$2,100 to $2,1500
$2,150 to $2,2001

All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Louisiana has the 47th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 4 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.

Open LTAC contracts in Louisiana

Browse the board for current LTAC assignments in Louisiana.

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Common questions

How much does a travel LTAC nurse make in Louisiana?
The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC contract in Louisiana is $1,985 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $1,982 and $2,081. Measured across 3 active travel LTAC contracts in Louisiana at 1 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.