The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Missouri is $2,337 per week, with the middle half between $2,230 and $2,530. Measured across 40 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Missouri at 13 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 5 percent over the $2,224 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Missouri 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 8 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 18 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 2 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 0 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 5 |
| $3,000 and up | 5 |
All 40 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Missouri has the 39th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 30 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Louis | 23 | $2,393 | — |
| Columbia | 7 | $2,309 | $865/mo |
| Bolivar | 2 | $2,077 | $690/mo |
| St. Joseph | 2 | $2,343 | — |
| St. Peters | 2 | $2,143 | — |
| Cape Girardeau | 1 | $2,381 | $800/mo |
| Memphis | 1 | $2,362 | — |
| Rolla | 1 | $3,017 | $690/mo |
| Saint Lukes East Hospital | 1 | $2,324 | — |
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 rose 0.2 percent, from $2,332 to $2,337 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 40 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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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