The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Louisiana is $2,078 per week, with the middle half between $2,073 and $2,101. Measured across 10 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Louisiana at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 5 percent under the $2,182 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 7 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette | 5 | $2,078 | $950/mo |
| Marrero | 2 | $2,901 | $1,190/mo |
| Baton Rouge | 1 | $2,026 | $1,040/mo |
| Houma | 1 | $2,108 | $985/mo |
| Slidell | 1 | $1,903 | $1,250/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 Louisiana.
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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