The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF (long-term care and skilled nursing) contract in New York is $1,916 per week, with the middle half between $1,626 and $2,006. Measured across 3 active travel LTC/SNF contracts in New York at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in New York, 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 $2,002 national median for travel LTC/SNF contracts.
New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,400 | 1 |
| $1,400 to $1,500 | 0 |
| $1,500 to $1,600 | 0 |
| $1,600 to $1,700 | 0 |
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 0 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 and up | 1 |
All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over and services 4 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowville | 1 | $1,335 | — |
| Penn Yan | 1 | $1,916 | — |
| Rochester | 1 | $2,095 | $1,090/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.
Browse the board for current LTC/SNF assignments in New York.