Travel LTAC Nurse Pay in South Dakota

The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC (long-term acute care) contract in South Dakota is $2,495 per week, with the middle half between $2,495 and $2,495. Measured across 3 active travel LTAC contracts in South Dakota at 2 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.

Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in South Dakota, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 20 percent over the $2,079 national median for travel LTAC contracts.

South Dakota 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.

Where every open LTAC contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,400 to $2,4500
$2,450 to $2,5003
$2,500 to $2,5500
$2,550 to $2,6000
$2,600 to $2,6500
$2,650 to $2,7000

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

South Dakota has the 46th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 32 percent under, while goods sit 5 percent under and services 8 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.

LTAC pay by metro in South Dakota

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Aberdeen2$2,495—
Mitchell1$2,495—

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 LTAC contracts in South Dakota

Browse the board for current LTAC assignments in South Dakota.

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Common questions

How much does a travel LTAC nurse make in South Dakota?
The median advertised pay for a travel LTAC contract in South Dakota is $2,495 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,495 and $2,495. Measured across 3 active travel LTAC contracts in South Dakota at 2 facilities, as of 2026-10-30. These are advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the figure is the top of an advertised range. 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.