Travel LTC/SNF Nurse Pay

The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF (long-term care and skilled nursing) contract is $2,002 per week. The middle half of contracts fall between $1,624 and $2,213. Measured across 36 active travel contracts at 20 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 LTC/SNF pay by state

StateOpen contractsMedian weekly
Rhode Island8$1,511
Maine4$1,974
Michigan4$2,093
New York3$1,916
North Dakota3$1,968
Alaska2$2,468
Minnesota2$1,868
Mississippi2$2,084
Nevada2$2,556
Montana1$2,397
Hawaii1$1,991
South Dakota1$2,466
Iowa1$2,103
Colorado1$2,252
California1$2,053

Every state with an open LTC/SNF 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 LTC/SNF contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
Under $1,4003
$1,400 to $1,5502
$1,550 to $1,7005
$1,700 to $1,8500
$1,850 to $2,0008
$2,000 to $2,1508
$2,150 to $2,3002
$2,300 and up8

All 36 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Open LTC/SNF contracts

Browse open LTC/SNF assignments on the board.

What LTC/SNF 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 LTC/SNF nurse make?
The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF contract is $2,002 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $1,624 and $2,213. Measured across 36 active travel contracts at 20 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this LTC/SNF 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.