The median advertised pay for a travel Mother-Baby contract in Kansas is $1,844 per week, with the middle half between $1,841 and $2,005. Measured across 3 active travel Mother-Baby contracts in Kansas at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in Kansas, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 16 percent under the $2,192 national median for travel Mother-Baby contracts.
Kansas 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 2 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 0 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 1 |
All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Kansas has the 42th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 29 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita | 2 | $1,841 | $760/mo |
| Topeka | 1 | $2,166 | $770/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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