The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Georgia is $1,976 per week, with the middle half between $1,789 and $2,120. Measured across 68 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Georgia at 18 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 10 percent under the $2,188 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Georgia 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,600 to $1,750 | 11 |
| $1,750 to $1,900 | 18 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 15 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 16 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 7 |
All 68 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Georgia has the 27th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 11 percent under, while goods sit 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | 34 | $1,815 | $1,865/mo |
| Albany | 9 | $2,021 | $940/mo |
| Augusta | 7 | $1,992 | $975/mo |
| Decatur | 3 | $2,120 | $1,550/mo |
| Calhoun | 2 | $2,576 | $760/mo |
| Rome | 2 | $2,568 | $910/mo |
| Sandy Springs | 2 | $2,120 | $2,120/mo |
| Tucker | 2 | $2,120 | $1,710/mo |
| Americus | 1 | $2,002 | — |
| Cumming | 1 | $1,679 | $1,940/mo |
| Fayetteville | 1 | $2,007 | $1,805/mo |
| Johns Creek | 1 | $2,120 | $2,130/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 Georgia.
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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