The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Wisconsin is $2,353 per week, with the middle half between $2,203 and $2,382. Measured across 12 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Wisconsin at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 8 percent over the $2,185 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
Wisconsin 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 and up | 2 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Wisconsin has the 32th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison | 5 | $2,387 | $1,280/mo |
| Marshfield | 1 | $2,376 | — |
| Menomonee Falls | 1 | $2,203 | — |
| Mequon | 1 | $2,192 | $1,580/mo |
| Milwaukee | 1 | $2,235 | $965/mo |
| Pleasant Prairie | 1 | $2,192 | — |
| Viroqua | 1 | $2,330 | — |
| West Bend | 1 | $2,203 | $970/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 Wisconsin.
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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