The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Arizona is $2,323 per week, with the middle half between $2,098 and $2,451. Measured across 15 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Arizona at 8 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 5 percent over the $2,220 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 4 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 4 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 and up | 3 |
All 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuma | 4 | $2,742 | $1,050/mo |
| Fort Defiance | 3 | $2,323 | — |
| Kingman | 2 | $2,064 | $1,020/mo |
| Tucson | 2 | $2,567 | $1,050/mo |
| Goodyear | 1 | $2,074 | $2,060/mo |
| Phoenix | 1 | $1,985 | $1,625/mo |
| Show Low | 1 | $2,122 | — |
| Willcox | 1 | $2,480 | — |
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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 1.7 percent, from $2,210 to $2,248 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 16 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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.
All 49 states with Med-Surg openings