The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Vermont is $2,255 per week, with the middle half between $2,155 and $2,831. Measured across 10 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Vermont at 5 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 2 percent over the $2,220 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Vermont 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 5 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 1 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 3 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Vermont has the 23th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 13 percent under, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington | 3 | $2,889 | $1,550/mo |
| St. Johnsbury | 3 | $2,208 | — |
| Bennington | 1 | $2,137 | $1,080/mo |
| Middlebury | 1 | $2,854 | — |
| St Johnsbury | 1 | $2,100 | — |
| Windsor | 1 | $2,210 | — |
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 Vermont.
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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