The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Virginia is $2,068 per week, with the middle half between $2,037 and $2,114. Measured across 20 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Virginia at 12 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 5 percent under the $2,188 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Virginia 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 $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 3 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 5 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 6 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 and up | 3 |
All 20 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Virginia has the 16th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 0 percent over and services 0 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlottesville | 4 | $2,043 | $1,410/mo |
| Lynchburg | 3 | $2,037 | $1,020/mo |
| Roanoke | 3 | $1,944 | $910/mo |
| Chesapeake | 2 | $2,140 | $1,660/mo |
| Newport News | 2 | $2,085 | $1,320/mo |
| Abingdon | 1 | $2,404 | — |
| Culpeper | 1 | $2,099 | $1,130/mo |
| Falls Church | 1 | $1,895 | $2,220/mo |
| Fishersville | 1 | $2,162 | — |
| Norton | 1 | $2,300 | — |
| Onancock | 1 | $2,761 | — |
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 Virginia.
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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