Travel NICU Nurse Pay in North Dakota

The median advertised pay for a travel NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) contract in North Dakota is $2,703 per week, with the middle half between $2,660 and $2,708. Measured across 3 active travel NICU contracts in North Dakota 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 North Dakota, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 8 percent over the $2,510 national median for travel NICU contracts.

North Dakota 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.

Where every open NICU contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,600 to $2,6501
$2,650 to $2,7000
$2,700 to $2,7502
$2,750 to $2,8000
$2,800 to $2,8500
$2,850 to $2,9000

All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

North Dakota has the 44th 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 29 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 9 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.

NICU pay by metro in North Dakota

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Bismarck2$2,708$920/mo
Fargo1$2,618$780/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.

Open NICU contracts in North Dakota

Browse the board for current NICU assignments in North Dakota.

NICU pay in other states

All 29 states with NICU openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel NICU nurse make in North Dakota?
The median advertised pay for a travel NICU contract in North Dakota is $2,703 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,660 and $2,708. Measured across 3 active travel NICU contracts in North Dakota 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 NICU 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.