The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Massachusetts is $2,657 per week, with the middle half between $2,349 and $2,779. Measured across 37 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Massachusetts at 14 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 22 percent over the $2,182 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 4 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 6 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 8 |
| $2,700 and up | 15 |
All 37 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 7 | $2,349 | $2,600/mo |
| Cambridge | 4 | $2,765 | $3,270/mo |
| Concord | 4 | $2,238 | $2,940/mo |
| Plymouth | 4 | $2,711 | $2,140/mo |
| Burlington | 3 | $2,787 | $2,730/mo |
| Milton | 3 | $2,657 | — |
| Newburyport | 3 | $2,656 | $2,140/mo |
| Beverly | 2 | $2,947 | $2,180/mo |
| Gardner | 2 | $2,295 | $1,180/mo |
| Needham | 2 | $2,719 | $2,400/mo |
| Winchester | 2 | $2,664 | $2,620/mo |
| Pittsfield | 1 | $2,210 | $1,285/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 Massachusetts.
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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