The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in West Virginia is $2,097 per week, with the middle half between $2,091 and $2,477. Measured across 24 active travel Med-Surg contracts in West Virginia at 9 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 6 percent under the $2,224 national median for travel Med-Surg contracts.
West 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 12 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 6 |
All 24 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
West Virginia has the 43th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 46 percent under, while goods sit 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgantown | 8 | $2,320 | $785/mo |
| Charleston | 5 | $2,009 | $860/mo |
| Parkersburg | 3 | $2,097 | $770/mo |
| Petersburg | 2 | $2,446 | — |
| Weirton | 2 | $2,097 | $700/mo |
| Wheeling | 2 | $2,084 | $840/mo |
| Beckley | 1 | $2,330 | $730/mo |
| Huntington | 1 | $1,908 | $895/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 $2,091 to $2,121 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 27 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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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