The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in New Hampshire is $2,305 per week, with the middle half between $2,246 and $2,622. Measured across 16 active travel Med-Surg contracts in New Hampshire at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 6 percent over the $2,179 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
New Hampshire 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 9 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 1 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 2 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 2 |
All 16 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Hampshire has the 9th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 4 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concord | 7 | $2,259 | $1,270/mo |
| Keene | 5 | $2,914 | $1,220/mo |
| Exeter | 2 | $2,486 | $2,140/mo |
| Lebanon | 1 | $3,049 | $1,550/mo |
| Peterborough | 1 | $2,255 | — |
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 New Hampshire.
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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