The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Kansas is $2,062 per week, with the middle half between $1,976 and $2,128. Measured across 11 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Kansas 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 7 percent under the $2,220 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Kansas 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 0 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 2 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 1 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 2 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 and up | 5 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Kansas has the 42th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 29 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita | 4 | $2,050 | $760/mo |
| Topeka | 3 | $2,128 | $770/mo |
| Garden City | 2 | $1,885 | — |
| Marysville | 1 | $2,112 | — |
| Smith Center | 1 | $2,159 | — |
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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 0.4 percent, from $2,116 to $2,107 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 14 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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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