The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Pennsylvania is $2,273 per week, with the middle half between $2,177 and $2,300. Measured across 13 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Pennsylvania at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 4 percent over the $2,179 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 3 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
All 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erie | 3 | $2,300 | $860/mo |
| Lebanon | 2 | $2,273 | $1,020/mo |
| Sayre | 2 | $2,492 | — |
| Gettysburg | 1 | $2,280 | $1,060/mo |
| Philadelphia | 1 | $2,252 | $1,355/mo |
| St Marys | 1 | $1,941 | — |
| Uniontown | 1 | $2,070 | — |
| West Reading | 1 | $2,177 | — |
| Windber | 1 | $2,006 | — |
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 Pennsylvania.
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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