Travel Mother-Baby Nurse Pay in New York

The median advertised pay for a travel Mother-Baby contract in New York is $2,482 per week, with the middle half between $2,463 and $2,500. Measured across 2 active travel Mother-Baby contracts in New York at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 2 open contracts in New York, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 14 percent over the $2,181 national median for travel Mother-Baby contracts.

New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.

Where every open Mother-Baby contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,400 to $2,4501
$2,450 to $2,5000
$2,500 to $2,5501
$2,550 to $2,6000
$2,600 to $2,6500
$2,650 to $2,7000

All 2 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over and services 4 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.

Mother-Baby pay by metro in New York

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
New York1$2,518$2,720/mo
Niskayuna1$2,445—

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.

Open Mother-Baby contracts in New York

Browse the board for current Mother-Baby assignments in New York.

Mother-Baby pay in other states

All 21 states with Mother-Baby openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel Mother-Baby nurse make in New York?
The median advertised pay for a travel Mother-Baby contract in New York is $2,482 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,463 and $2,500. Measured across 2 active travel Mother-Baby contracts in New York at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this Mother-Baby pay figure come from?
From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.