The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Idaho is $2,019 per week, with the middle half between $1,936 and $2,091. Measured across 4 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Idaho at 3 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. With only 4 open contracts in Idaho, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 9 percent under the $2,220 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Idaho 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 $1,700 | 1 |
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 0 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 1 |
All 4 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Idaho has the 29th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 5 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 10 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocatello | 2 | $1,996 | $850/mo |
| Coeur D'Alene | 1 | $2,022 | $1,230/mo |
| Meridian | 1 | $2,017 | $1,800/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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