Travel LTC/SNF Nurse Pay in Alaska

The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF (long-term care and skilled nursing) contract in Alaska is $2,468 per week, with the middle half between $2,408 and $2,528. Measured across 2 active travel LTC/SNF contracts in Alaska at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 2 open contracts in Alaska, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 23 percent over the $2,012 national median for travel LTC/SNF contracts.

Alaska is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Alaska license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.

Where every open LTC/SNF contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,300 to $2,3501
$2,350 to $2,4000
$2,400 to $2,4500
$2,450 to $2,5000
$2,500 to $2,5500
$2,550 to $2,6001

All 2 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Alaska has the 14th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 6 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent over and services 2 percent over. 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.

LTC/SNF pay by metro in Alaska

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Ketchikan1$2,348—
Soldotna1$2,588$970/mo

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 LTC/SNF contracts in Alaska

Browse the board for current LTC/SNF assignments in Alaska.

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Common questions

How much does a travel LTC/SNF nurse make in Alaska?
The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF contract in Alaska is $2,468 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,408 and $2,528. Measured across 2 active travel LTC/SNF contracts in Alaska at 2 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.