The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in New Mexico is $2,224 per week, with the middle half between $2,017 and $2,412. Measured across 9 active travel Med-Surg contracts in New Mexico 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 0 percent over the $2,221 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
New Mexico 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,700 to $1,850 | 2 |
| $1,850 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 1 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 3 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 2 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Mexico has the 37th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 6 | $2,224 | $1,070/mo |
| Rio Rancho | 1 | $2,927 | $1,380/mo |
| Socorro | 1 | $2,017 | — |
| Taos | 1 | $2,197 | — |
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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