The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in New Jersey is $1,839 per week, with the middle half between $1,774 and $2,071. Measured across 5 active travel Med-Surg contracts in New Jersey at 5 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home.
That is 17 percent under the $2,221 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
New Jersey 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,600 to $1,700 | 1 |
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 and up | 1 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Jersey has the 4th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 34 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Englewood | 1 | $1,774 | $2,010/mo |
| Montclair | 1 | $1,839 | $2,455/mo |
| Morristown | 1 | $2,071 | $2,540/mo |
| Toms River | 1 | $2,488 | $1,540/mo |
| Westwood | 1 | $1,616 | — |
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.
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