The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in South Carolina is $1,983 per week, with the middle half between $1,909 and $2,308. Measured across 23 active travel Med-Surg contracts in South Carolina at 9 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 11 percent under the $2,224 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,700 | 2 |
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 3 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 9 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 and up | 6 |
All 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence | 8 | $2,128 | $870/mo |
| Orangeburg | 4 | $1,813 | $1,000/mo |
| Camden | 2 | $2,269 | — |
| Columbia | 2 | $2,613 | $1,210/mo |
| Greenville | 2 | $1,983 | $1,100/mo |
| Seneca | 2 | $1,983 | $970/mo |
| Charleston | 1 | $1,716 | $1,990/mo |
| Easley | 1 | $1,983 | $1,005/mo |
| Hilton Head Island | 1 | $2,057 | $1,770/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 0.2 percent, from $1,979 to $1,983 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 19 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.
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