The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in North Carolina is $1,999 per week, with the middle half between $1,869 and $2,108. Measured across 27 active travel Med-Surg contracts in North Carolina at 15 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 9 percent under the $2,188 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
North Carolina 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 $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 9 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 4 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 4 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 5 |
All 27 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
North Carolina has the 31th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 19 percent under, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmington | 8 | $1,962 | $1,430/mo |
| Greensboro | 3 | $2,108 | $1,080/mo |
| Burlington | 2 | $2,074 | $1,085/mo |
| Charlotte | 2 | $1,877 | $1,820/mo |
| Concord | 2 | $1,758 | $1,455/mo |
| Fayetteville | 2 | $2,361 | $1,080/mo |
| Winston Salem | 2 | $1,880 | — |
| Chapel Hill | 1 | $1,809 | $1,825/mo |
| Eden | 1 | $1,815 | $770/mo |
| Edenton | 1 | $2,101 | — |
| Goldsboro | 1 | $2,610 | $875/mo |
| Salisbury | 1 | $1,893 | $1,080/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 North Carolina.
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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