The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Nebraska is $2,447 per week, with the middle half between $2,110 and $2,788. Measured across 19 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Nebraska at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 13 percent over the $2,174 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Nebraska 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 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,300 | 5 |
| $2,300 to $2,500 | 4 |
| $2,500 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,900 | 2 |
| $2,900 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 to $3,300 | 4 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Nebraska has the 41th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 25 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha | 10 | $2,514 | $1,105/mo |
| Lincoln | 4 | $2,435 | $960/mo |
| Cozad | 2 | $2,447 | — |
| Hastings | 1 | $2,110 | — |
| Kearney | 1 | $2,281 | — |
| Norfolk | 1 | $2,110 | $730/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 Nebraska.
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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