The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in North Dakota is $2,430 per week, with the middle half between $2,394 and $2,780. Measured across 19 active travel Med-Surg contracts in North Dakota at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 12 percent over the $2,174 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
North Dakota 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 13 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,050 | 0 |
| $3,050 to $3,200 | 3 |
| $3,200 and up | 1 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
North Dakota has the 44th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 29 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fargo | 14 | $2,430 | $780/mo |
| Bismarck | 4 | $2,430 | $920/mo |
| Dickinson | 1 | $2,834 | $850/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 Dakota.
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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