The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in South Carolina is $1,952 per week, with the middle half between $1,933 and $2,172. Measured across 19 active travel Med-Surg contracts in South Carolina at 13 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 10 percent under the $2,174 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
South Carolina 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 $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 12 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 and up | 3 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
South Carolina has the 33th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 20 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | 4 | $1,952 | $1,210/mo |
| Florence | 2 | $2,365 | $870/mo |
| Mullins | 2 | $1,909 | — |
| Orangeburg | 2 | $1,933 | $1,000/mo |
| Seneca | 2 | $1,952 | $970/mo |
| Charleston | 1 | $1,716 | $1,990/mo |
| Conway | 1 | $1,957 | $1,070/mo |
| Easley | 1 | $1,952 | $1,005/mo |
| Gaffney | 1 | $1,860 | $750/mo |
| Greer | 1 | $2,524 | $1,255/mo |
| Lancaster | 1 | $2,673 | — |
| Travelers Rest | 1 | $1,980 | $1,000/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.
Browse the board for current Med-Surg assignments in South Carolina.
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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