The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in New Jersey is $2,269 per week, with the middle half between $2,071 and $2,470. Measured across 10 active travel Med-Surg contracts in New Jersey at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 4 percent over the $2,182 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 2 | $2,574 | $1,820/mo |
| Morristown | 2 | $2,071 | $2,540/mo |
| Camden | 1 | $2,405 | $1,310/mo |
| Neptune | 1 | $2,133 | — |
| Newark | 1 | $2,418 | $1,940/mo |
| Summit | 1 | $1,986 | $2,440/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.
Browse the board for current Med-Surg assignments in New Jersey.
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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