The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Alabama is $2,037 per week, with the middle half between $1,977 and $2,100. Measured across 7 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Alabama at 4 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 8 percent under the $2,220 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Alabama 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 1 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 1 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 2 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 and up | 2 |
All 7 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Alabama has the 45th 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 38 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 3 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery | 3 | $2,037 | $880/mo |
| Birmingham | 2 | $2,052 | $1,080/mo |
| Bessemer | 1 | $1,834 | $1,010/mo |
| Winfield | 1 | $2,062 | — |
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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