The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Pennsylvania is $2,251 per week, with the middle half between $2,224 and $2,301. Measured across 12 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Pennsylvania at 8 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 1 percent over the $2,221 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Pennsylvania 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 3 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 2 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 2 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Pennsylvania has the 24th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubois | 3 | $2,251 | $790/mo |
| Sayre | 3 | $2,492 | — |
| Philadelphia | 2 | $2,246 | $1,355/mo |
| Erie | 1 | $2,301 | $860/mo |
| Lebanon | 1 | $2,224 | $1,020/mo |
| Monongahela | 1 | $1,941 | — |
| Waynesboro | 1 | $2,224 | $1,020/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 fell 0.3 percent, from $2,259 to $2,251 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 12 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
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.
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