The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in New York is $2,405 per week, with the middle half between $2,301 and $3,039. Measured across 21 active travel Med-Surg contracts in New York at 13 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 8 percent over the $2,224 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 8 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 1 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 0 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 3 |
| $3,100 and up | 4 |
All 21 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | 11 | $2,418 | $1,090/mo |
| New York | 2 | $2,373 | $2,720/mo |
| Utica | 2 | $2,684 | $980/mo |
| Cortlandt Manor | 1 | $2,291 | — |
| Massena | 1 | $3,170 | — |
| Potsdam | 1 | $3,000 | — |
| Rome | 1 | $2,301 | $940/mo |
| Schenectady | 1 | $2,297 | $1,230/mo |
| Syracuse | 1 | $2,405 | $1,100/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.
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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 1.1 percent, from $2,332 to $2,359 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 22 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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.
All 49 states with Med-Surg openings