The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Texas is $1,913 per week, with the middle half between $1,762 and $2,026. Measured across 33 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Texas at 14 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 14 percent under the $2,220 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,600 | 1 |
| $1,600 to $1,750 | 7 |
| $1,750 to $1,900 | 7 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 10 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 and up | 5 |
All 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amarillo | 7 | $1,913 | $920/mo |
| Tyler | 5 | $1,791 | $1,080/mo |
| Athens | 3 | $1,638 | — |
| Brownwood | 3 | $2,543 | — |
| Dallas | 2 | $1,731 | $1,530/mo |
| Lubbock | 2 | $1,839 | $1,010/mo |
| Nacogdoches | 2 | $1,564 | $865/mo |
| Refugio | 2 | $1,986 | — |
| Wichita Falls | 2 | $2,076 | $885/mo |
| Abilene | 1 | $2,026 | $940/mo |
| Childress | 1 | $1,915 | — |
| Kerrville | 1 | $1,934 | $940/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 1.4 percent, from $1,794 to $1,819 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 31 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.
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