The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Colorado is $2,273 per week, with the middle half between $2,191 and $2,309. Measured across 19 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Colorado at 12 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 2 percent over the $2,220 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Colorado 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 $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 5 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 5 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 4 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Colorado has the 13th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 4 | $2,297 | $1,750/mo |
| Loveland | 3 | $2,282 | $1,405/mo |
| Grand Junction | 2 | $2,227 | $970/mo |
| Longmont | 2 | $2,159 | $1,650/mo |
| Delta | 1 | $2,273 | — |
| Greeley | 1 | $2,336 | $1,200/mo |
| Lafayette | 1 | $1,970 | $1,770/mo |
| Pagosa Springs | 1 | $2,231 | $1,110/mo |
| Parker | 1 | $2,701 | $2,010/mo |
| Salida | 1 | $2,435 | $1,070/mo |
| Steamboat Springs | 1 | $2,191 | $1,740/mo |
| Wheat Ridge | 1 | $2,275 | $1,660/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 Med-Surg assignments in Colorado.
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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