The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Missouri is $2,192 per week, with the middle half between $2,153 and $2,381. Measured across 23 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Missouri at 13 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 0 percent over the $2,185 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 13 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 1 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 0 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 3 |
| $3,000 and up | 1 |
All 23 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 | 10 | $2,408 | — |
| Columbia | 4 | $2,192 | $865/mo |
| Saint Lukes East Hospital | 2 | $2,232 | — |
| Creve Coeur | 1 | $2,179 | $1,320/mo |
| Excelsior Springs | 1 | $2,062 | — |
| Farmington | 1 | $2,281 | — |
| Jefferson City | 1 | $2,192 | $660/mo |
| Kansas City | 1 | $2,227 | $1,220/mo |
| Rolla | 1 | $2,124 | $690/mo |
| St. Peters | 1 | $2,143 | — |
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 Missouri.
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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