The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Florida is $1,833 per week, with the middle half between $1,705 and $2,166. Measured across 9 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Florida at 6 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 under the $2,220 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Florida 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,600 to $1,750 | 3 |
| $1,750 to $1,900 | 3 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Florida has the 11th 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 22 percent over, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titusville | 3 | $2,544 | $1,225/mo |
| Gainesville | 2 | $1,820 | $1,300/mo |
| Lake Wales | 1 | $1,628 | $940/mo |
| Riverview | 1 | $1,628 | $2,160/mo |
| Tampa | 1 | $1,705 | $1,880/mo |
| Winter Garden | 1 | $2,166 | $1,990/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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