The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Indiana is $2,111 per week, with the middle half between $2,037 and $2,155. Measured across 19 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Indiana at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 3 percent under the $2,174 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Indiana 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 0 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 3 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 1 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 4 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 11 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Indiana has the 34th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 5 | $2,037 | — |
| Fort Wayne | 4 | $2,163 | $990/mo |
| Evansville | 3 | $1,899 | $830/mo |
| Terre Haute | 3 | $2,134 | $770/mo |
| Elkhart | 1 | $2,296 | $870/mo |
| Lafayette | 1 | $2,111 | $940/mo |
| South Bend | 1 | $2,420 | $945/mo |
| Sullivan | 1 | $1,864 | — |
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 Indiana.
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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