The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Arizona is $2,091 per week, with the middle half between $2,004 and $2,300. Measured across 18 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Arizona at 11 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 4 percent under the $2,185 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Arizona 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 4 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 5 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 3 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 18 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Arizona has the 17th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 5 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | 4 | $1,995 | $1,625/mo |
| Fort Defiance | 3 | $2,328 | — |
| Tucson | 3 | $2,200 | $1,050/mo |
| Yuma | 3 | $2,337 | $1,050/mo |
| Flagstaff | 1 | $2,440 | $1,710/mo |
| Goodyear | 1 | $2,038 | $2,060/mo |
| Mesa | 1 | $1,985 | $1,660/mo |
| Show Low | 1 | $2,144 | — |
| Tuba City | 1 | $1,903 | — |
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 Med-Surg assignments in Arizona.
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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