The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Texas is $1,775 per week, with the middle half between $1,715 and $2,026. Measured across 25 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Texas at 11 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 19 percent under the $2,182 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Texas 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,400 to $1,550 | 4 |
| $1,550 to $1,700 | 2 |
| $1,700 to $1,850 | 10 |
| $1,850 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 4 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 and up | 1 |
All 25 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Texas has the 25th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 3 percent under, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waco | 7 | $1,491 | $1,110/mo |
| Tyler | 4 | $1,775 | $1,080/mo |
| Lubbock | 3 | $1,965 | $1,010/mo |
| Sweetwater | 3 | $1,715 | — |
| Abilene | 2 | $2,026 | $940/mo |
| Amarillo | 2 | $2,224 | $920/mo |
| Athens | 1 | $1,638 | — |
| Kerrville | 1 | $2,070 | $940/mo |
| Odessa | 1 | $2,693 | $1,300/mo |
| Wichita Falls | 1 | $2,055 | $885/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 Texas.
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 46 states with Med-Surg openings