The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Alaska is $2,589 per week, with the middle half between $2,431 and $2,895. Measured across 6 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Alaska at 5 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.
That is 17 percent over the $2,221 national median for travel Med-Surg 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 and up | 2 |
All 6 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juneau | 2 | $2,974 | $1,310/mo |
| Anchorage | 1 | $2,520 | $1,190/mo |
| Cordova | 1 | $2,658 | — |
| Ketchikan | 1 | $2,324 | — |
| Soldotna | 1 | $2,402 | $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.
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