The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Louisiana is $2,177 per week, with the middle half between $2,097 and $2,186. Measured across 10 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Louisiana 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 2 percent under the $2,219 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Louisiana 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 3 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 5 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 and up | 2 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Louisiana has the 47th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baton Rouge | 3 | $2,078 | $1,040/mo |
| Marrero | 3 | $2,901 | $1,190/mo |
| Metairie | 2 | $2,186 | $1,200/mo |
| Lafayette | 1 | $2,078 | $950/mo |
| New Orleans | 1 | $2,167 | $1,260/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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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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