The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Tennessee is $2,245 per week, with the middle half between $2,014 and $2,300. Measured across 25 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Tennessee at 13 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 $2,219 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Tennessee 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 9 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 8 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 and up | 3 |
All 25 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Tennessee has the 38th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsport | 4 | $2,352 | $800/mo |
| Bristol | 3 | $2,300 | — |
| Franklin | 3 | $1,999 | $2,200/mo |
| Maryville | 3 | $1,983 | $1,210/mo |
| Germantown | 2 | $2,061 | $1,720/mo |
| Johnson City | 2 | $2,652 | $920/mo |
| Knoxville | 2 | $2,015 | $1,280/mo |
| Memphis | 2 | $2,723 | $1,165/mo |
| Clarksville | 1 | $2,223 | $990/mo |
| Cookeville | 1 | $2,035 | $845/mo |
| Greeneville | 1 | $2,274 | — |
| Oak Ridge | 1 | $2,245 | $1,150/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 1.0 percent, from $2,290 to $2,268 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 25 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.
All 49 states with Med-Surg openings