The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Michigan is $2,200 per week, with the middle half between $2,090 and $2,277. Measured across 18 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Michigan at 11 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent over the $2,185 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Michigan is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Michigan license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 1 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 3 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 2 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 2 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 and up | 3 |
All 18 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Michigan has the 28th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 18 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Creek | 4 | $2,207 | $900/mo |
| Kalamazoo | 4 | $2,253 | $960/mo |
| Petoskey | 3 | $2,277 | — |
| Bay City | 1 | $2,093 | $760/mo |
| Carson City | 1 | $2,116 | — |
| Flint | 1 | $2,071 | $810/mo |
| Ionia | 1 | $2,262 | — |
| Marshall | 1 | $1,976 | — |
| Midland | 1 | $2,034 | $870/mo |
| Owosso | 1 | $1,938 | — |
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 Michigan.
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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